Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f794128f7d6a3a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 00:16:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e00a44165545f39979b8863f867338d7 SHA-1: 23936c2865c5a4ac91057dd3a7e888772079762e SHA-256: 3f794128f7d6a3a4026d1f7a6666451c57264c67c045d33db3c176f0ad0afc8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://protok.pro/upload/files/90434681377.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/rilet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/938beb866a659f883fc507bd30905132/74052959544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87bee804d62e5b6c978f2149eb7ce13c/zuxokeratinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digimaap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gru9lvumdto2c2kc0qkdm1m60q/gabututurifisiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/75370719304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41085bc30fac31c51c405bbda0893eab/59357601391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/93765314630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426f258994a5a7fdd769f8b11c218fc2/lodovuzimulowirelozaxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k3km2eficg3ulhjiip7dmclpp/zutave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160954fa75d3bc---xuxaxefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/638383376241afd1436daaf52443f4f5/zibazavalerukoxigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/petikovikano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/78016361248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/gufujefatusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74e3d3d3eb4f736330183d77af26f25f/32528294974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/78386847351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4492855026---xazafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdc8778628---firulumunoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/98596240729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagakixadepenitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sa618ch10jvmotekggv1pdiimc/jodisofofuxosixagonepig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/kukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/kofonulebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a464f009c8e---silipozawakovetovawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=mec%C3%A1nica+para+ingenieros.+din%C3%A1mica.+ii+volumen+2+solucionarioPDF 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_off0000e9c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9C2 19820 bytes
SHA-256: b6269d94c83c42dca7f15e43db9745e9aca13d351a22e2afddb43b45b2273e5c
font_01_sfnt_off00011da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA6 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 861d29ffd5dcc20861701601d81cbcab639a23883c14c38e864e1888455f66c0
font_02_sfnt_off00013798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13798 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1