Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eff8dc392ce01dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-08-15 23:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b1d886421071f7f99cefabdb624146cc SHA-1: 3479dc8354e872919e6221aecd7a9b877c8e45c3 SHA-256: 3eff8dc392ce01dd758ea953a84b421ed5124d584bd91e3ab0f3aabf7f46aeb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/668e185cfb33bcbe9e4618543960f151/lafezubirogegarikejetas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/95668320222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e42bt3l.net/upfile/files/lematotoveragorunikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/daxolisojivaxadozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/bumelemuleniber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079262cf0ff7---79899600529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/xaguwotela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d42d672b0afcc446930c31c00b8fe5/9475873627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/41355888920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/90331814185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd0d705875---wasopodalumilumolalusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hausbootgeiseltalsee.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlg2o0qicm69l5591os2823qv3/galutinitururixawokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7rugddja15d91hjmlj8h4bd7/zerujamogituvireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/zofovexurikobulelunoved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160948fdfe1726---69700995281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5b894f7d9---taseku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7ccf3d4b8---jifokireserevedajenoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/42759952585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/turijosimofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92d2ada2e5---tajazemudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815fa57f5fb---supiluvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/wijolanugapas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpjg8b4chigcjveavn9cgea5ti/paguzowawaburefodozexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=los+siete+habitos+de+la+gente+altamente+efectiva+libro+completo+gratisPDF 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_off0000d18a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD18A 17932 bytes
SHA-256: d0a6d0abfcd1620316f4af4758f4ea55de03570fbb7c531ce463aea07450d884
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF39 11228 bytes
SHA-256: b7e60838bde208384e714775898faaae9497b88db0953c9ef062ddf0303d95f0
font_02_sfnt_off000118eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1