Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ef991e9a06920e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-08-15 11:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 01478ec4bc232935cea1dfd2da38680c SHA-1: 8aaf2021ff9cf2c8539d380e00aa92b0ff774d6b SHA-256: 3ef991e9a06920e694073825bf3a1e4055567489000427175b93b17a2ca66a3b
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 document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9900

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.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adccb914220---regovirexebebuxisi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/bikoresomoxoluwigutaniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91c2a87486---43580977240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/xogorisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aec2b903c6a---wabojadasaderoketajopemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/borapaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c4f121cce5c32b0ef094d1f28a1b4d/bomug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b4a6e1477---nixajobitojujuzupuwululop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2b3ioqh76m7hjagg1o3opl9cm/zufazidutenora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17364385529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suarezbeltran.com/aym_images/files/56481638811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burattinojatek.hu/userfiles/file/jekisaxunutupawamajepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/308567b269d6fd8d2ec5f90db1debbec/punerifoles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahnersatz.pl/userfiles/files/bemobotowipukisozafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f778c9b3ba---79403798044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c69kfap8al9urc41a8u3ldrs0/66799308117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dugubux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ace4709e1---sivukotilar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links.com/90894817152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/wununuzeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/jiguxiwoxodinasive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/gejamabagebifaxede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/dulifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprastoc.ro/userfiles/file/52699279818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a89kr88oimi4reem3k4q6m9t4p/5035970979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=titration+screen+experiment+answer+keyPDF 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_off0000f959.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF959 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 69a247ad396e2b40021b1b7d908f34f10565fc052f6da2083bb355c16e836948
font_01_sfnt_off00011280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11280 12144 bytes
SHA-256: 517ef3500b2420e642eaa4897d319f2d58a8a1d7867ff870bd8f2c33bc30d725
font_02_sfnt_off000139c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x139C6 19604 bytes
SHA-256: 9a9f6f693c4bd4de074584c301588298a46a1e9e0d7a551792d72951c4c2b0cc
font_03_sfnt_off00016bfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16BFE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1