Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f64b6a5493a6db1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:50:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7fdb8e7c7c0b879906d2edc1e870801f SHA-1: c5c53be081df75a94934bb120153e28405e9f1f0 SHA-256: 3f64b6a5493a6db1d5e1fea8e662c67fdf2dd1e4fc3aec73d77f70622849018d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites, all serving PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where the initial PDF acts as a lure to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://peterdegendt.be/file/rulaxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7ba976b46---74804123293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079aed4ed898---55872938456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/mivilowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc07a2aea0---futesig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/vafenagimiguvunadig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mej7cd9d4c1h066gf94s6u3i3r/49236164507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/lamegegedonusun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/250grui13j87fpdlhr6tj6ussi/11672470792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7342152324---taduvudiluxoxilesuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c86494577---vijufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cicadit.ro/UserFiles/file/35460881090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19baa36578---47531224948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5a1976bfda---topizexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2bet.net/contents//files/dazasivelojufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1fe3afbe6---fenekilelirekawukateleta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodcomputers.ro/2664/uploads/tanilizuberaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffde34b87ba39448a15cfb959fbf9815/metis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/14633555491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/2021512204399300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danburyhighclassof1961.com/clients/b/b4/b42d7d7907ff1a67dd6fd366dd3c6775/File/wafuxowuboxenikeguzezusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/87888655066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16095ff0a4a160---pokob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983cf536359---lugaxomelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/mafatulobesazanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/pexizifepobas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=upper+body+without+weightsPDF 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_off0000e88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100A5 10804 bytes
SHA-256: a48373f7f37773de8987208a22d48bda85b728cd78fcb41166b8f05cd89da81f
font_02_sfnt_off0001194f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1194F 17564 bytes
SHA-256: ed6b2756fca437424538ffdc89e7d63289c8846fa385b13c1b2d5d18ecd53ee7