Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ee29d4297174b13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:24:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f946b994bddfdc8df83b87b4c1f478b9 SHA-1: b8e87bcd77913a1fc31f5ae05ca90866e32e4a9e SHA-256: 3ee29d4297174b1346dda3190ab1e8a9a258ccd429d412149d462a0274c3fd51
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for phishing or malware, leveraging compromised infrastructure to host further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0bq837bof8k523n8pmrv75cg5/kefisutedavaxemagedejaxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7oo795t2afj37flvk52kkv423/menuwowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c746f551d7b---68320804163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5b3fe15036---81529153207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/35637686694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b770cdf3bf58fbe31316ef783a90f2/8746255259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarlampa.ru/upload_picture/kugituluxerasedilomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/20627230675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8baada896---55563202645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmbc.cz/_data/user_files/file/batajexogogumaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7d50f559ff---82580388345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c234cce8e4648a263b3a7318330298/17028386602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a133f023cca8ea16792acb3a929a677a/vaxoxufinexarerutabeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.associatedomains.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609897cbde575---pafunami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sport-way.ru/img/file/togiresep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jfefood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/737aad5c8925bfc0944335407633df82/safekevetanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/fodidubiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c225fe31a82---1721116919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cf6b78f82---rufutebapapitiralut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9293f80efb---65586093058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/26282661137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coonvalleycc.com/userfiles/file/tuxokojolopemowisibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/jagesadarebuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=stained+glass+graphingPDF 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_off0000e8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8CD 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 82e4cbcf990204f8c18d4a038c227b828cb1147e0889a8c930b125ce0ba30b41
font_01_sfnt_off000113d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012be8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE8 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 4c9dc212b1cbfd3aafe9d790851fa48813ad6fa2ea0a327a26a6772a0bbd2c28
font_03_sfnt_off000143d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143D7 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd