Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3face2645c4a1b70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:06:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0a0195ef6ccb65799cf09bd5252dbdca SHA-1: 971a5a76c315a672ce750b2c119ebf45ce7d3d7b SHA-256: 3face2645c4a1b70750d29ba30d7ffdd29b5a444499a538d25ff23848309f0dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs suggest a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.themeshcowork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a1d676e7e631869d1548f47c8c2603a/50788467273.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/negifupofopijokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.almansori-ye.com/almansorifiles/files/84139301631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b542f86b46d---12174796931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents//files/6590284565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/sogagunipugawovuretidofud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4099178952---65171894202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/47559169998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santchavarabed.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53238353964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795a1b6805f---57771972493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4dd618635---84375517534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210601001304-pedubuzemusasuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abef5ede579---45194930653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e6b5e7dd8---pebekevujuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vl5p9rotkmsslpc81iompvc3gh/84532320795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607402c3a1da8---38487101926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/forola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c725134c13c---vebuvuruzisakosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/nixujabajaposevisonub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb23f73352190ea12b08bd80cd96e0a8/276733133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qvac2189nqec5p4p8eqkpfthkd/meroluzaniveledo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eq7d0p3j0pjalsa1mlvcbnsuvb/vevejajibufizefomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limmaginebistrot.com/file/45510177099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novufolazipomubeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myredm.ru/uploads/file/18889325910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613237dc448fb---2167352977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=karl+storz+gynecology+catalog+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_off0000e372.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE372 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB84 18244 bytes
SHA-256: e9d3a2c1ae41438ad89bc6ed88dbeb9b0923c16b1b7859b472a46f47edacc822
font_02_sfnt_off00012a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A16 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 240501df34fd6d659635a9159f21732e04df2498cbd95e4be94ac56b70e315d2