Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e87310a5007a66b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-08-14 11:20:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a41a4adb29d726f8c081f22e68d97124 SHA-1: 36ff91fceaa7c2eb1a4042d2eef0094ca0d0e950 SHA-256: 3e87310a5007a66b01dc39c58b1386f8390df8c64a209772cca0635f20069707
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, identified as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79544bf712---55046383547.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076680c4ef23---67124605564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/gesunufofimamefamazewanoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4appsoftware.it/file/mogukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/182b6a1feb38353e774ced256a9d4e50/dupukimulimewil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jerebope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/90960826492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986aaae5e1bf65c4623724a77783f934/16497662097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80de4fe510cf881a4c414148a2ee29de/30275220161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b813fe131f---mabamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/lovuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87157509949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac69f232503---78309918575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8400ba821---49301494697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efe7ed10f9---48464964633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070b4df9be40---88173969727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/711pcmehv4f24rtm9hs02kipn1/jusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e20ab32d0b---68299995924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--i1aam8cb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21e00f6613e77c7c807fcfa2a3780c3e/23269425443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suvagcentr.ru/userfiles/files/vuwiselamuvupap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vvq1emubvdrc43rj9fuhsmhgbm/ledagov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/89836476391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494729f6b7c032210e838873501bfb4f/62814550916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/puganomumafasofekemuvifig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fondationmonetoile.org/clients/0/0e/0ecfe6182781ff486fe5156d2e85c11d/File/34129148370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=diagrama+de+perdida+de+carga+en+conductos+circularesPDF link annotation
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE9 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 1e577359f2f0ffece25d8d94c8e170adb7b43749560824250ef368e1f984611b
font_02_sfnt_off00012a1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A1E 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 15bf4cc45a8a1d70f9525f46a6edfd9103cb8680fc2ee80ad062023a44f63110