Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ec438eaa83678bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 16:17:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c4c1d4c715f6f1727fa460e48a469b12 SHA-1: 0f723754236787bdb97d1ae6a7fe77290602e532 SHA-256: 3ec438eaa83678bba954c7ff37dc02f130eee44a5c4c9f17314781945389d5c6
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 pattern of exploiting vulnerable web servers for hosting malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d95e652ddc---21421396735.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0399d8a3b7---60845258933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/46877593396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66164410aa---29825215421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbeequestriansurfaces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrjvrfe7ut7c4qco0gpofv8k0g/54788938724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vgko28oflp9pads6284pkkkd4/84251673225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3c716a512a---8025532719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf374242f4---rumilakimitufenige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608857592789d---36457300938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a683de1d7aa---xafekadajokitiroxudepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://119pump.net/d/files/52805835318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f0f7153da6---dubinijed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainichiji.com/upload_ckr/files/99317674398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e173e40089---83168405275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06a603e1079826495383e2ef93af8895/botupixarizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b93c362465---79150642265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waroproject.com/file/vapebiwiliwonodune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/17030816357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/rawevumutidun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841562de926---39210679374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-lightingcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ecddd6019f81d969d74d0aa05bed54f/fevivowevujarozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+atp+molecules+does+a+single+cell+use+per+secondPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010433.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10433 16252 bytes
SHA-256: bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
font_01_sfnt_off00011a14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A14 11148 bytes
SHA-256: d15756bea7a0d6fa778c1d981a031cf9252ef62114d0d5dd39a21f397190db8c
font_02_sfnt_off000133e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133E9 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 07f7ab23f2a0a2f03bd2c5ae1574d2cd4ab5e6bee2b8bc98b87e13e15b0837fb
font_03_sfnt_off0001622c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1622C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1