Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e3488dfc7d512e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.0 KB Created: 2021-08-07 20:15:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 94ad89d7e862332d2a6d3909df79151d SHA-1: 6d2eed5d804f3dafc3c6d28fd26f83fde9ac745c SHA-256: 3e3488dfc7d512e46312032d57208c9a5a0578961761335165e2ef1312d82fc8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites using the super-forms plugin, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9903

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+midnight%27s+quirk+do PDF link annotation
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72238631556afb66598d37217edcd291/97950667494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/wejesitiponugiwizesaxesim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aonetreks.com/uploads/file/22962450319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210514085143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4eee29c61f34bfaedead6ed2e91e797/tupufofukeniwadelulipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/bativepinojidavovesuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39d1a00d09798015e5ab9e81bdc23a5b/28263091602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42804abf465d35a51b09ddfc132a2dd9/rimilejedofiwatem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhi2rpfjg7h3fdcua7jcg1e9n7/9758764761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b05a45198---sineguvumuboviwila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880556a1681---58433892736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarexperten.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/vewonifati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mspchicagolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/buzurabegovefegil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070a7e7c4dfd79a2b7b98d85152f38d1/paruzinolavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia59iqeqfnra6jornppccvf0j3/bofajerova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/47313953625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87ba3958bc---48115979012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad214dd169e---bilafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803aa5382a8---zuwolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jqmv4gh6uurve8cmra366qsep1/nelolerozinadagivawerebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210510025734731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://washchienluoc.com/upload/file/47740875160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/difelusesawawigixusowoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/silevovorogida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fb2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB2D 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 54e3214b0e891be05601a28898a84ce628d93c478e18629aa3b1d58238ff9c17
font_01_sfnt_off00011424.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11424 17564 bytes
SHA-256: cde309a138dfaffa97f19cd29ecbf124ca071db17c50997f5d50f32a499779c8
font_02_sfnt_off00014201.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14201 4404 bytes
SHA-256: 3a0c9086e1a6134e3c8c8a95d6afa485e26208fea50bd105efd1737db9f2933d
font_03_sfnt_off00015269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15269 16144 bytes
SHA-256: fcca37035df06e555c2991ff65faa0e8497ca6423bee408ebc46b3aef925b516
font_04_sfnt_off000167e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x167E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1