Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f761fd8a2ff8354…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.7 KB Created: 2021-07-18 22:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 454130c13b32ecc0377f274b87f200c3 SHA-1: a4ccc65347d3664131023315be4190725a699b6c SHA-256: 3f761fd8a2ff835473a0a9f3fd02c33ba24ac41da580b581ec064bd608ec66f9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which likely serve as a link farm to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of these links and the overall detection suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

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 http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bba3a3a692a---ridunivajusamu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6591371654d4d1f34e0335b233480149/24534043491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/risixigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6c379220eb---panogovetaxezusezone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786b55c2d56---35293569466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758214d9bbf---kefazujigevotogetake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_F38327488E63E023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/bevolufat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/nibodiletifisapirugawofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/47478428121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8274f25b61---10476365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/xilovijiwamofukosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8a21gvnpelc7bnmccenpsrdqm/tilujove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0898.com/userfiles/file/20210716092957_5hd731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.com/userfiles/file/lupufinuduvepekopenamuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cbfca3ef4---38221146949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/fawutamekatetovukaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/gopabatimuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c0a403f65---8339840184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210617_BD8C6B8098D1AA22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secohthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/sefegixuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/63443069570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0baa807e42981087bee8bc5576792dc2/74846096391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boathousebrokerage.com/userfiles/file/62801772746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=competition+in+mandarinPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1D 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 3dfe36d9c8ca6cfc0b41d7943f0dbcf130bf1fc76cdc1495e185f2e77688ca99
font_01_sfnt_off00010376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10376 12088 bytes
SHA-256: 97f4cdc7f274a71079d8a7ae8d17a5ebdb3ca96ca582ada67d3fa4c6c3873876
font_02_sfnt_off00012900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12900 18072 bytes
SHA-256: dd97c04f2a194c1097d616fc8f13c894f3c37057acc7ed833d0102b2ce2268ee
font_03_sfnt_off0001591e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1591E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1