Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fb20121f216b47e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-02 02:01:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 6c0f98d09f9ff57991ee21742da732e0 SHA-1: e0b2b30517478350540694e79ef18d12dfcdffe4 SHA-256: 3fb20121f216b47ed54ccd77dd49ccd1f3101c979c0677d1e35c4b3e8475f072
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites used for hosting PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59161864b27577cfa57f43c34fca9612/rivutarabefibabajapevip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a8c2f4df14---5823394300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/mudup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/dubetaxozupujagunegewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b9071c01b---13544359305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s1940s727pj4e3rd9k7v32m5i7/9369676028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v8cedf9288vnisq03eu4s314c2/88247842011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi2.com/contents//files/sirotexegexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalnetworksolutions.net/files/tugadopexug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/91234106997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/97334342541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b32f20832b---66570606354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/67858129994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607652bf52434---8519541716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xarifoviwufozuluvagub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interior-mark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/93746229797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb45c44a41---rapazusaxomimibibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9413222367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/89001911764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/17663646003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/fupunizap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c49577586d5---xalikatesopizumujuwupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=mapamundi+nombres+en+espa%C3%B1olPDF 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_off0000f02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02A 10892 bytes
SHA-256: d790139a152dcd7c699d896bc61e95bc62b4eeafcbb9f8a69b9f9b8c1eb04399
font_01_sfnt_off000108bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108BD 17984 bytes
SHA-256: d1d9124273e82d1b25a674849f5d9ced95cbeccc966c6c66fd69cd359b9b245f
font_02_sfnt_off00013671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13671 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1