Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f8365e5b859a354…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7efc426b517a2b98acbd63cc41ac7d2a SHA-1: e6f7437b5e5eb9519feb8a889992cb2ad0f22a73 SHA-256: 3f8365e5b859a354182e11cacac86cc6265f99a5ebae00bf08ec6138e8947654
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories. These links likely serve as a distribution point for further malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fddc86269---zirakemaruxusetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bunian-co.com/other_files/File/44427769565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/16781597748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/dilexosobogivexapuwopini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f49704fb8---xoviduloxenudabulatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c87aa9b4599af250c718223ce4e8907c/lututifowuravagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a8640b2bf---26742226931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c30e042ba138ec7e61fa6187403f7aa9/xumisajisiwabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofasokafaguzoxevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://truhlarstvi-strakonice.cz/files/file/65687623770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59b2b5bbb63ed0a374893e5d8990678f/62927080409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/88998672318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c89128761---82601957933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berkeleyhigh64.com/clients/9/99/99a482d4bd0dc5522cc24ea7f8204a07/File/89227025197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8c23682dfef3394ea25a1f836871c49/56156338482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/luveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/88059556666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ayurveda-shiatsu-qigong-nice.com/upload/files/dujojedabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/32949397153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/84376049160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabuzirifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/61793083531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e5e7ecad12---rokunabupubasokofujunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d05dd350d7---nulivid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=normas+apa+sexta+edicion+resumen+pdfPDF 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_off0000bc53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC53 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 204ae924da36e5466eea3c4c98ab993f3edd03a1388bc8212f39d289aba71a52
font_01_sfnt_off0000d59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD59C 16320 bytes
SHA-256: 5265b43253555d9e3d88608e245fe93919bbb2cf5ee43a1f3c0403e906c05354
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1