Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f97fd50b946d096…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:21:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: db0408683261aa5fd6db939e0c7bb584 SHA-1: 1c2736b849b3c95c4d83e4aec2f60439b64cc03e SHA-256: 3f97fd50b946d096297a89b0a651d691eb9bc15e8eed283b70af942d36025dfe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of these links suggests an intent to redirect users to potentially malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3305818125---67588670692.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gistfamilyreunion.com/clients/8/8c/8cbf0a40baaab9dd4734ff2cdbb1e120/File/91370151856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6799a7e1987da79dd12e869a54ad0e7f/29449204049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ad35fb5b2e3eea3af6c4d2bf5780f95/pugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vetranhtuong.info/luutru/files/4775492560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf828b84211---3968274655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7be0b4e76800d2c6683b39f77ecfe716/38604125700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb739abbfe---9436790887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hevolta.com/upload/file/39692082544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eq44pdhcl8febfci3157ituuv/2567611347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--c1aejbdnke.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33680874209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kmsenior.org/file/files/jebirotozozezetibunad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160933c925bacb---zufexekamodivonezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a978f6d63c9---pamuzidivonawusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/54583679284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3r7uim5bbucg3hi8j9tplu06b5/18766243231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20f3d152b3844597560d93ebbaa28b25/kogijenaginowutubawimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b037b969fd---jasekufixavakaxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paynechapelduquesne.org/clients/9/9b/9b910c66cef3ae2d1bb1fd5804160a19/File/45580064584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091788085701---40236454363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guruamardaspublicschool.com/userfiles/files/vutusalap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/18443058786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/kusuxezakiwemizuwifazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021081021341180554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ark+survival+of+the+fittestPDF 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_off0000dfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFB1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C3 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 0ee4261afbf5f8451c15b97b927728c846e2f3569c3aa16dea268d08b15e69b3
font_02_sfnt_off00012605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12605 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 631dc7404e9b6443de3a47fa4b685b15c73480ed502f608255da5d041b561b72