Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fda2937c0637a91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:10:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6f6dbac5d379c4383079f6298aa0792e SHA-1: 8c52b9f739bbf1e28f1fe9e973f08498392031bb SHA-256: 3fda2937c0637a91cfe49664ffea44364ca23f09ade9c63a14bf104818929625
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary attack pattern involves leveraging these compromised sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d5073e7106---58289931408.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://naturabliskociebie.pl/userfiles/file/35430826858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/62313590804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vd3tplsmm0k2rgl31gqbm6kgs/bukojuvixijifakibajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzy.pl/Upload/file/vesovasomagobujiledarexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kristinanamaste.eu/files/zapopovipuvomejononidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8a0f25c91---sajukafizurebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besteva.com/upload/files/dugowetajawisopobikaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serini-cloud.pl/uploads/editor/file/61663947042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4scif6t8dq59mls5gup6uaeij/58053123682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps173queens.com/clients/10779/File/wogulutoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/tefawuzoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k7ckk7if4h95alcso8f1ufm9ie/pevafozesituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mishor-uvk.com/uploads/files/wenejisebevekufesavisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607719b9994a5---13323096048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/nakiwukewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojovicsirogojno.com//files/vemet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/33210781996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e9649451a---62505954380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/66487726788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gld-lining.com/user_img/files/51019656862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58947b094fdb9d59943102e2971f8e4b/90854705086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a9470875c---83252644132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fuwepopowibebonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=sistema+circulatorio+abierto+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/merunozuvalewivixigo.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_off0000dfc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC3 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 653c3f35c14ffcca3c9cc104c62594c52bb990863a434b8ddbd3352ace6ca0d0
font_01_sfnt_off00010c95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C95 10992 bytes
SHA-256: e8533781631f270694c40cd5226d58654105fb400f86391c652613bee2d11857
font_02_sfnt_off000125e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1