Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f4afe126f7d70a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.3 KB Created: 2021-07-19 10:09:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 7950cdf63f190ffc50da923e804bd2ce SHA-1: 02c28cda98ac5a63909f741a86509cb2f1d5a65c SHA-256: 3f4afe126f7d70a0d4859cd0c191d6e1c5a271d48043946ec6688f12926c237f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious or phishing content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct user-facing text, but the heuristic firings confirm the link farm and compromised hosting aspects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3624b63dabe6b162a5e80642d69a7e1c/44867799537.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trunghungplastic.com/luutru/files/92154439211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/24747596022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/selalamivobobaputifoliseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9jgo68ikjk20mk44sf67fc3d57/wakeriluzuwaridesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4423b873fe214632115c851eadff4ed1/25321244422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuabaoduongmaynenkhi.com/img_quanganh/files/fomoliliduluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad976c8ab2---tanogufukifuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b09cfff185f3462b1457210bfe61cc26/mawedakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/buwotuwexibironuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16851308945009ed36a4916bcfa83c91/sazokexoxujirimugevono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rw-hse-businessconsulting.de/userfiles/file/mizisagoroxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16096ae693665c---36043444691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00err00j9h95qu5rbsl1khqvcd/57394487655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phantasos.org/userfiles/file/porobadidoxogexebivuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084ada3b1619---35052755246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071517e74977---88433774527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiajitutop.com/contents//files/wigelubibavevufevexufiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childconcern.in/trila/userfiles/file/70211547253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acca4c74c18---1149338804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d73c6fe0dd4bb0a340b61eaad23c8dd6/belutorajojofojexiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/mefagebuneduzare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160715d358059b---46193574166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/nudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/53686458821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=cheap+valentines+day+ideasPDF 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_off00010add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000122f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F4 10480 bytes
SHA-256: e240313b7722771ab1311848d552c99fe3571b7ac6eb837a0cebec8672fd45c4
font_02_sfnt_off00013abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ABD 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 8f152a7e6b58dcfebfd884279e19fd12ef69f24f2b67042db7a26cfda450977e