Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fde3ab4e4a560ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 57c69788df634e2cb9e12408875b484a SHA-1: 035c5ce1a623c066854948f5595deb5165e81b7a SHA-256: 3fde3ab4e4a560ac0b125132ff4eb86a094bdba54c59df446b9860e3f0ca4fe6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the true destination of the links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcaae712f1---dezekemubusozilujaneg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4921e9f620---kubarovonunuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuxubogasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b205205f2---57161374476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0e92a621b---81507486099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icicle-mountaineering.ltd.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41527676451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ae37012e19---56434061087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f5fdb2307---31954939208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b5f08a84c241c72db5d5db244f2c09/kogenewadijinasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sevsport.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f60d4f89476e739181a3d10fdb8a7fa/piwotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keongracun.org/contents//files/budomusogaxoteraroxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c5bc3494a1a09c0f02e19b806f26471/lurapewifegeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--dlek-5qa.com/admin/UserFiles/file/31229015849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1f88a6c2fb---zopanategalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/kejupufebibegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4160dd674b---rojunupogixidetoxavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcacae9f3a---kakisuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20219387497557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11d8702c9c33efe2158253a807565345/44626220832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5360ab77032b6f1dc7c99f4abdaf79/liwezafix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093e1f9e53f2---93151805807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagunaapartman.hu/images/user/file/61698131464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crownprolaw.cn/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/45894689130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hanuman+chalisa+lyrics+pdf+in+kannadaPDF 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_off0000cd79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD79 21624 bytes
SHA-256: e978713f76c000d18174310a92da6868284ea0fb9d127f25c61899ca98cdd022
font_01_sfnt_off0001058f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011da6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA6 10832 bytes
SHA-256: 83d4f41ea18234900d27549282c4a5ac2b606031f265e9b7b52303a314cfcd83