Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fecd201aa9cb51d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-06-02 22:45:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c12019c9ccd53db6089504c1c6392db8 SHA-1: 7a3d7080032707a7b154b769ea0e1d4c8766ad03 SHA-256: 3fecd201aa9cb51dcc9e196d385ea00522bd47861610ff291a0625b3e19a1720
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be junk data, further supporting a malicious intent rather than legitimate content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9397cb651931d119b525c18ebac542/58617704297.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webupdate.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qonrmnnvgigbj8s1n02g1cbten/wazirebolesumajuzode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf48b7fd9ee8e94945b5304f06667a5/80695192528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873c91aaf81---jafezomusedagajano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.engltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b76a46fa16da0487b68dd755fb1cd0e/likuzijebumepaxiriseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b538550c6---29063681026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cn57mpfct04j6io2clh31lhc9/tiwujarigalusovowunenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/020928484429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606faeb0b7a1d---5065036352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a504fec749f---rusawifakazuzegifumozebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kojeneckezbozi.eu/userfiles/file/febikagodox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro3v5dft6igdkppqqqrucjm4dh/wanuzubukavirizifubijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/xuwaxanamaruvakazit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/jakiremumijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607563348e8ab---lilefaxowaxobodusivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=reclaim+your+heart+yasmin+mogahed+reviewPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d235.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD235 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 5591cc2bf0e12865c276c058f2e6c0ccd5b57b041aaaeaa5a26e7dc9c9bed660
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D5 10612 bytes
SHA-256: fdedb4f3beb212c6178522d6049a4d5cf74a7f134f44b9b98cf19ae80577a009
font_02_sfnt_off00010905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10905 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333