Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f4adfbe664329f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2021-05-07 20:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 596a92a1f196cd569727691b92c46672 SHA-1: 10f61524fbe2d89c3bd6ffc08fb1001bc5f6eb45 SHA-256: 3f4adfbe664329f9c07e652bb40ce81388945f2da986e87572bcd9791416965f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise, likely leading to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d0b226534---ladofat.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85b7b41744b1346a7704eb8e65c487c4/tijazivesesimeveluvoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6556ca6a1747f99efc07cc8a5e1bb3/rabinojebafulasoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073bf4dcc47c---supusesolugibariluneluki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d6e15b77---89570154847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f84104e042873c4af43e9c930109b8d7/19189847853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/14838281290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c053849cbbc66c6833c16368fb46d62d/likaleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lastcallslc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a85b6601199fa0cd614494226d503b02/kimubugazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944ca7d3a53---2386501341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce850f089b1261a51ba85a8e324ad19c/30207155773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ac6caa482cd8f72871ac934729d4dc/dizegetunujipuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709117b4232---xafebulevalixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abead20ffb---88688295772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd8b2cc62c---17889284596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxurytravel-show.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d368a6b54a0e02e1126f8bf0eb71cd95/58905612526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=uk+visas+and+immigration+reporting+centrePDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6AD 5476 bytes
SHA-256: 3624f8373c8d7226880f7070fa9e5f6e6d04bdf51f8e551258350a385cc5fa79
font_01_sfnt_off0000f945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF945 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 5230311cecc22e033ed6605b4c0575b93375509fd2309b74f8dbae61d12741e0