Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff2d66f036a30c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:25:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 28ca02e9fb3dea81c5c83ddc7b91d2fe SHA-1: 1656ba16946d936ca5546891756f4b16538544f2 SHA-256: 3ff2d66f036a30c1d7beffba0094e1b1a0b3b9119a0f920ae2deec2cedb97ffa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+electric+circuits+charles+k+alexander+solutions+5th+edition PDF link annotation
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd2bfe5f8ad7b3d9171983924abef0c8/96577726791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u53r42dna7vf2amtbe8h0nql7e/vojawunowafes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724823ee08f---26402232465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecvbrass.ch/user/web/file/94107621700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add9ff1ab24---2832552042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toshiteriyakiburien.com/uploads/files/1851266169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioterapiazabiegi.pl/obrazy/file/taguzibomewawozeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divapharma.com/uploaded/file/62230012723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447feb41d9fcc08cfb8493736fd01fea/39348903714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a475793e38c821e601b079efd05bcf4/6768974154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextgenship.net/upload/file/20210523162174795476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sllight.ru/design/img/upload/file/80327359815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608106a573277---nerezuperubizisimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ecipv0upn4idlmtmjrvt1emk6/8668632731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607800502cf9c---gilira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romanakladatelstvi.cz/userfiles/file/vodotifubopagufepita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6ea357dda9---jiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fc855e8c8---30801599934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1579afd03---jokopukek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802915a1fe0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/55178802546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/vejikovezugejugimiteguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a31dfacb01e---24181339035.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_off0001017b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1017B 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 22d5353dd664889c1bd51614829c67df7475d6714cab9f5133cb1e39742cec65
font_01_sfnt_off000133b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133B9 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 2fead7b8cec33d49113c149b96bd3398a94352f756ab34e980123d28726b8bae
font_02_sfnt_off00014d9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D9C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1