Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f4bdc70ca932f34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-10-13 18:07:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 413e5063337b71e0872980c8fa9af1dc SHA-1: 96b8d8307beb68cc83cf2e71e9043d1a4dfa8ee8 SHA-256: 3f4bdc70ca932f3404cc834c0a5d70f84700677d201c847c9ddd9e4db675e75a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains an image-based screenshot designed to trick users into clicking a link, which redirects to a compromised WordPress site hosting further malicious PDFs. The document structure and numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads suggest a link farm used to distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjk7735qsa0eb86ocnppbg4trn/80385841675.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d97fc68c76689cc65700567990bf8d84/kunatipewesujoxuwumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfipl.in/userfiles/file/banazaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/vafunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nerezove-kuchyne.cz/UserFiles/File/zovisovabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/24089499828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cb1f976f65---26584649005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/femejugomitixinefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/70882623443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitecuador.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86443284176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161384decc7162---26322897411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnianemarzenie.pl/userfiles/file/gukafasudedafuvujineta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oookub.ru/upload/fckeditor/file/feraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srs-budapest.hu/uploads/files/sapijep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/konusavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/jarukikoboxukedabatano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d0998db9f468d287a4aaaf05afe56c0/kumutufigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badgerhillfarm.uk/62729405312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenithservicos.com/userfiles/files/92842586364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansensvenner.dk/imagesfile///xixadopasabaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booknowrentalimo.ch/userfiles/files/sogolabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://membermimpi.com/contents/files/11332798167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/EqozwcbAC44/uplcv?utm_term=stopping+by+the+woods+on+a+snowy+evening+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000ac76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC76 11352 bytes
SHA-256: e225836b8bf13fe94d9289cb1eaf0a94bbf6b4cb37d0745f1295cd9de5941a1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000c687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC687 13624 bytes
SHA-256: 01e3869b33654f889f5d9bf27c60519a4d126fe857b7f172c4672d8cc4a404a8
font_02_sfnt_off0000e7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1