Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e9010f75960a593…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.1 KB Created: 2021-08-21 06:54:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5adc4bfa9eab05d4ffe2309204341ff4 SHA-1: 373c7475b2270c288283006b23c9c60faa90cf22 SHA-256: 3e9010f75960a59390433047b09a7aa93721ee71f45efffa17ad2e08a35c7b1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+diccionario+b%C3%ADblico+strong+espa%C3%B1ol+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidabotevavuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/57109032477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingyuvasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/42978388812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608845147af9f---bapawewufusagol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/momugopetagipezimikufoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c55c3df9c---22673811713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a5e66342ea---gotalelarepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpsoft.shop/upload/files/doxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d36fa10198---76883058536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glbtrader.com/userfiles/file/firukemepogisixuxijovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volamtuyetthe.com/userfiles/file/riguwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/719611acb2fdc3ba7779d4c8094bf9ae/42409679383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0q40na6tlte4t87uvmtqaoad6d/24430228376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/somajobakizireligesafar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf4880d523---gosikoxeluduzudinapoxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0817d228ec---36812539280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45822732316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/99436538348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d59cf9ea966141120c9d677eafb1265/22748238874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609865ceb0585---51674235872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce5e678c60---3476122697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il0339vgorhqlosnqaoc5aas93/tuwobivubawuxename.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be37124c8e6---16254313731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.com/images/file/nofulozitoripadubegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/16576973438.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010c56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C56 19704 bytes
SHA-256: 5def9a8c8c37bbf1538dd6a8d37f102c84462bfe83aa92f2503d3678888addaa
font_01_sfnt_off00013e77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001568e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1568E 11096 bytes
SHA-256: f2e30b7597694b9ec4238356d5f4bf0e0652d3cf41c54558df9b3ea9a95df66b