Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e9675241e29cba6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:38:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c56660e4af83298b0c29bd2fca3d8686 SHA-1: 0dae1d5fa04f13059b3268f4d5b66a6000bed2cf SHA-256: 3e9675241e29cba6d6cb63889368fb42b28f558a1429461d82209f70f879e98f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of compromised CMS uploads are strong indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04849d2f5018f6946be53bbf2414245f/14029253405.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kingalbertltd.com/uploadedfiles/file/74257396517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8hhnt0sb40u6htf2lke74hjso9/31743033846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/gugozofanoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705c49e4401---18811241310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40194bad7d---romiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/mudawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094686843f82---bojuxovakadurununenum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/44531946477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9n9285u9d87qm47ustc9e4k59/tovofusobogepuzominid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a44bbb6caaa---pebofisojeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pics4us.de/userfiles/file/22683125396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexhealthnutrition.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/67003684349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1963e43008---57131995636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rpinelimuei7vt8carjikqvvji/27140979551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbd944ac5e---vajadinuxarunexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comp-art.ru/userfiles/file/punegalixopaxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3842bc1bcb43baac9cb42c443d0c8cf2/sixokagulabixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adb1993863---misiliribebotidixewer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nan5c89qn94sd16hf2gnip9iof/15208103817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/dogipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a52495458b---83743915119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bb171be56---roxuvikenisavolupuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88e71568d7e347293778370e4992f00d/67567214497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b402bfca3ec---31887585291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/kowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+seeing+jinn+in+dreamPDF 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_off0000ed3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED3D 18324 bytes
SHA-256: 2e94f1ff9cf3e2d01986258b3c8d3213786343fd253f7302cfb48adac1fd0ed9
font_01_sfnt_off00011bd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD8 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed54a1c410c6b27fe7f8925510a6839c52cf67f9f735d99ebac0843a54eb21f
font_02_sfnt_off0001340a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1340A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1