Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f8b3c6cfc34f64f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:11:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9bfc663f4a3b27d92078b1284b5e087e SHA-1: cb2d94e3d8725128e41071d1f9415128829d22ef SHA-256: 3f8b3c6cfc34f64f73111481c48cc66e0ad08d7e3fa9f052b6463a0ff468d682
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure victims to malicious destinations, likely as part of a phishing campaign or to deliver further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=business+accomplishments+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f817acefe---1100380907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrnchina.com/test/images/ckfinder/files/68713655585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a82c4506d2c7b35713d8ec56860ac052/27296458907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806c61b9ea6---53050529956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d676cfbc476d54489291847ab3c9447/loletuguveda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/813c813e158dad3a0f05414bf5a93a7b/74270614286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orchid-daikanyama.com/userfiles/file/zapufipijijawusoguvaxiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pke323il1jepepe9mb8j5ldqc5/dorurudifelarovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56362786e8e33cc14048f964613206d2/wadujogilabofejewur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scholl2021.com/clients/1/19/19bca4f76d5065ca3bffbfc1c67e7925/File/toronufejopajutowar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075d695652ef---29199204561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/49393061349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6863b591ab---65206690769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/faruverepapirolunatafol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/44607425537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ig82269g0co1fvmc8lousqq9tj/sakewopuzojarufuwixividik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k0asbd7akc3gcmnij1q3gqcm0/nomujidatujakuxazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/duvofisad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaf81853e5---zebenisosavufipunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71uqqchg19ai7g10il708pdbit/rigusedobubede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd52b870a59da62e0892bab8bcebaf1a/bilawegevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/duligizapozilima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/765q6l4d3mu2bhj0ot36ifhv0e/64016734120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2da8d0329fd30b2719d72cac2ce5e756/dewinunozazixati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc1d5a953ca---gevinanufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00011995.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11995 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000131ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131AC 10792 bytes
SHA-256: dc0fc4f49fffdb31d57cee47d094ef39eda8c907dac4827a337eec66a5923345
font_02_sfnt_off00014a5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A5F 17552 bytes
SHA-256: 17af12aec76fc74324e190097f0aa6006cdab1cbe4a1c52f619c06d4afdbd763