Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ffb128961e2ff98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-13 12:45:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 1017710085e4057789aa88a45a71d347 SHA-1: 918dc5b3d6b0b27c78addc2331b2c55a07abf9d1 SHA-256: 3ffb128961e2ff98d202d3c3faab57c3c621854d0509b1e39ca20730dbc60763
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. ClamAV and ML classifiers identified this PDF as malicious, specifically a phishing or trojan variant. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=non+defining+relative+clauses+examples+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c73611c209e---71896059261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/bewumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a80f91ddb---87972633106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0ed3c4b933e1dd55d5d37f8cba76e1f/39156186362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/kalufixolowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6947b537f0c0df111d2120b04a184127/gopumiwifutadutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/37261400249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rgn2u.com/userfiles/files/25163526125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f9f1ae555---7966847648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/07/09/file/mosigufirelusasejinidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesislighting.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6280e397b3d2fcd86890e73a281c1fa5/borisaxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7381757fe1---vijefaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointswestliving.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95703823527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448124be7613f92eca535736b238b651/23557389186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asiavent.com/UserFiles/file///22331807181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/21196303138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/pubimazokoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6mhk1nv72tsutcicg22hc48e5m/19873392328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dad107deb---wikarile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woodfur.in/userfiles/file/niwigewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076fbcb1dd09---88836425310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vjukginnsg3o0882krl2egfc1/sejenizebaboribudolazuful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/faxowokolotonidukaxofone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f4878532029---64224080879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/pukolin.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_off0000ecfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFD 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 2bcc7899e05be8f232ddae18326052761c42cecc7be9ac6d49822091f97dae92
font_01_sfnt_off00010711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10711 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 74e3d83e83da3ea8f8cd68a71ebb507b7fdf0586d8722baa0b9a1c658d2c338b
font_02_sfnt_off00013495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13495 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1