Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f534b83253bf480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ee0d7dbca571613a3215112754bfb3cd SHA-1: 255a9fce09d2dde2148a9d7427a20ff4fb6d2318 SHA-256: 3f534b83253bf480ca2bd2d1a73f93c174053fa3a137dc71803d5f916b619774
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating it functions as a link farm. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this file as malicious, likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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 https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f341555ecd3---wadarisukutalate.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e44968b7eeb---77110730290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaktv.com/storage/ckfinder/files/rofiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/86233624663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ik4n9s6qgfca9d0qjsrvs6bio0/wibinivutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9a6c5949f7---41557243183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/90533345091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108a2cec9381---45635198708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e571e8a06e9804511f11520b8c49b3a2/nanudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/8378217830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38850920168bebfe44679bb37b213783/35681647571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufojewugowuredus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrospizzadb.com/uploads/files/mujufepibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/debonasuzafijakawatexezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1d52523d83---sidoximuxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zojukagawabolenimelofok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/32512252928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b21c7884bc---nuvikapaxaxojegikepowijur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f284f62ea554342b1fc2e26b77c1a8e/temoriralerujijijisoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13983d6009ee1a4915b98d4451d931d6/7794103253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/zedesututevudofirenuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/zogaxemebofikusisivevowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ufnk.fr/app/webroot/files/file/30900537624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26077caf5d0679169b9f9c29e52d7204/megurokurobijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3730211c3---tovozuwunoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/benotekirivedawajusukam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=jenn+air+stove+repair+manualPDF 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_off0000bf62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD779 10572 bytes
SHA-256: b9215df321d53c7c5bd30bd17ad764177cb11b65ff59be0b969488ee846186ed
font_02_sfnt_off0000efa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA2 16532 bytes
SHA-256: 96b89a368f46925e33dd5c84443fd13f84bdf94ac14187416539196d3484dec4