Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fb50b6bb14c47f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a2713f1614714250c046c17b6911a4c1 SHA-1: 106497bb54f34f6de46e1cfe5219541ba5548967 SHA-256: 3fb50b6bb14c47f07ec9ba0ec981247a035d1f6aa77e050506d3fc35bb7f44bb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a significant number of URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bedc7849d87---rigetudofazefejegiditovoj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/17797262353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcv2oan74uqn58kccfb9ht4oc2/6933548945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/riwijofuwoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc261e9e2db7c7a22a05e6999d438b8c/mijesexogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevoir.hu/uploads/file/boviwamatenosazevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69024882971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betenenergy.com/sites/default/files/file/datamewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c421e35d68a---xixogepuguzajeted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvh2sk2bk0a1e756fdvnn39c0c/16391724898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/vilizijuzarumukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/samavomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbf68d534071a399cf7169ba1c392f9d/91875904868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/naxumojifibinaxubenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160913e7146dcc---62328127682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/47374929803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609215a008542---zepudutavugesozazimiwuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26j6238rkbdbvumabqslf1c661/95596779702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://condominiobrisasdelnorte.com/userfiles/file/53298477832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca6df5fdac---36265008186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ligeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cin3ab5evjtt0otb8lck565q30/64034188864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/18939499163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/31720323997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mftelhas.com.br/adm/Editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisujuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1e13e9c7bb---todejimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609242e4d8826---77852670171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=matter+elements+molecules+and+compounds+worksheetPDF 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_off0000e88e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE88E 10956 bytes
SHA-256: f1aa555988f35d8b6dc211e4709498ebc320617cd73bdeb6892b28623803899e
font_01_sfnt_off000101e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119F7 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 5c343a08f408854e9b96b7a35ba5c0db5547db94477fb2af7cf85149a549ebf5