Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f0039c447edae11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:02:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 64f76bf409a8cfb64ddb3b2332a9fbbe SHA-1: e362b8ac58f5c4fb873a37b16aa41ec1ca867ec1 SHA-256: 3f0039c447edae1167d49b1acea6679ad1c5e2616b8e9115479fdaefb873613a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. The document body was heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the presence of numerous external links strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70736a0dc6d96f25192d1f6b88e029ee/44265774017.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/kulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/likizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960a7719d7a---65623019871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/mugitenumabupefojosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianaccounting.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/67947285174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fd895ba322ba6dd8839b57adcc7d82f/sinetakuxawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c11a8b0b2f6---87485840840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aba68ca99353d50e6bbccb35daeaa92/neberawowifawavovogek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08b722e454---26649140909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082161baab45---96906540005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-kcc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/77729121626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860eh7fapsq29hr01hpfr5p684/deteriguzokuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingbeat.com/contents//files/tusituzumonosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aviseco.ro/userfiles/file/lunifaxikid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanobubblevietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071661e05af0---gudofukika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fab8041992a9200a0cb81aa6d799702/voxigepasidowaniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/51529295338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hkefk0h8mgce92i10rp103eti2/97541636857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28dae2188f681c2f9cc14fd4715f7be0/zarafamubipejamamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/34704836515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobitransjogja.com/files/28677098382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=java_home+is+set+to+an+invalid+directoryPDF 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_off0000da01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA01 17228 bytes
SHA-256: d68fb9e5c48681c242ce614582cfe423c1924dc34117dbdbd44c4d60baa2d727
font_01_sfnt_off000106e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F00 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 7b49f85167a284185ef09faec634c5986dc8805e63fcf04dd06df2f9116c13e5