Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff4a51198b67106…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:17:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4d83a50342589c8569cbd14dc887d0c7 SHA-1: d5b7dc745a03f5a1e7dfc5129c3842fd7381119f SHA-256: 3ff4a51198b671068faadcd4519d2967f02aa7fde5124db13a58ff53bf638611
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6a920c81---15399791016.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfb9b327c8---bapigejowipabikowav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85a9d625f8937b199866cdbeb7d284f/xazuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypperfect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6165649173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents//files/kuroxilipipuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/fozagobufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076ae1147097---vuxudipavava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alongsideasia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa155c91bc1df3a22755eeba86e6eb2/vunimexixefapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8de6b818f5---48199245564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de5ff3e1ad---xemobinefuvebavarox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/forujibiwupawigixegaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e6e1a1dca---89362366840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2ceda6c76d---dakunulatubinakifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/429fc882b86d037f1559051860d0b9ba/rerunapezitufabovevani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sb-78.ru/files/file/18696621833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/52808672571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/7499560327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e58ba53cc9c257715365d5fd6242566/xudedavetodovajirora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/97100441103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4748f33132ef5391dd8c50cabfa3ecb/malizenilufaxizuvufajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210514053642_azsfjv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb38dceb835---25451298717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsuvgk8qlq1leks5qu0crqspd6/17194182149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=reinforcement+learning+semi+supervisedPDF 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_off00014292.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14292 17052 bytes
SHA-256: f7294b87969dcae8d728e268617e6d4eae9ebd12d7295e408b3204ab57ae9065
font_01_sfnt_off00016eaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16EAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000186c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186C6 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 946e8664d79f6a6bf372ebb7b3a6da6d3bbac9a5d74fdb696d569c54d0146dce

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