Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fdb32b54c473896…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-08-01 06:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 776bfdd941c735e4d96f1579585927f7 SHA-1: 5417ee111f3bfebe7fc9dbdf2e81d9255e85dde7 SHA-256: 3fdb32b54c47389620a9824afb5c41298b113919b77a6f67efdf393dcf1d186e
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL patterns indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lq7kf8he31oiak0ceegeag1rqg/kivofilomuvew.pdf
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cb29eff84---xizumom.pdf
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c61ca05147f1582b3b5c80d0a9ad1923/bojagajutalonewateg.pdf
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afd6d766d2a---bakibetagabi.pdf
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74441bb142---10989793727.pdf
    • https://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/81440764479.pdf
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/43658023775.pdf
    • https://gannat-ltd.com/userfiles/file/14511849451.pdf
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb226f6dce21c014367ac74ebda13d2/21067393650.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607887150718d---ribefojasuzanofukeges.pdf
    • http://domeinbeverdonk.be/assets/files/file/dibuvepotereligexuledomu.pdf
    • http://drkoopman.nl/cmsimages/file/91581350976.pdf
    • http://tpokebar.com/uploads/files/62772545863.pdf
    • https://101doctor.com/uploads/ckfiles/files/60cb117aaf7df.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f0ef174d2---81116976563.pdf
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4857c0288e---rirevapisawamuviminuvefi.pdf
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/kumajomimixaveva.pdf
    • http://polloricowings.com/uploads/files/zunojepipatusiziwaku.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af096c1049da54bc4a35eba6e4c96334/36329100872.pdf
    • http://aprendanow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ccf1e8433fa0c05b752a9743158418d/sodopabutoregexafol.pdf
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/54070908449.pdf
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/pokoterofa.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e0b1547c0---1572541927.pdf
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/zoburaxibiferowujugezo.pdf
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160973e9d91aea---70609042639.pdf
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/suxisukadotejidujifada.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=mega+fun+obby+codes+march+2021
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef3.bin
ab66540831737c57400ac27e22df56386d4366833cbddc9bb096e3399550300d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF3 16856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012ae4.bin
27c00a9524979ef8336f344b2cbde5daf8ef3f599a1eb6b0b2fbb791bfa739e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AE4 11328 bytes