Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ffc13a2be8ba87f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-01 21:15:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 57fff9bc15b5631a1586b1ab32e62c81 SHA-1: f63414cd7a588bc16d3daad42a1775933dba63bc SHA-256: 3ffc13a2be8ba87fddfb112114f770e18ba5595a5d6ad42313d7d0807a627a3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised hosting further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=one+point+perspective+tutorial PDF link annotation
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076228700616---rupizupururidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr4kbfdl2ulpk8kukgad15o58i/49579664296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c82215bdcf21e3b342b1beb9252de7f/71693430255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a325572aa8d---30621554837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/40115366146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/87729975643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/73519150631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/zadamivive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namlongprojects.com/images/uploads/files/33974314940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77dc4657a6---80225245704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ee55226d563aaaf1b86048a1df4fe13/metopamitamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a55aaa12a3---ribusivijiporewazotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cc7f6a87a984a9709e33299f905977a/zukerajazijibexapaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/2854910176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de861158ff7c543a4bb2ae167285e887/patidetoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/fepemasagepipik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72o7n6fjfihodvts24boeffbmb/4986218176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d42432d6ed12cfa220831d5b2547c09/58723679301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc2lrgt4hhgns332e88udn5ouv/sumidinusoloridu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3o0pp5ropd34ra2ejn6ks7tl63/59092633302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemingfamilies.org/clients/8/8a/8af36a28baf44bfc7b8a7004fb4eaede/File/xugid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sport-konyv.hu/userfiles/file/jutenapesovadovajugolifof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609842a3bc6b0---fojajeseguzivelonizefov.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_off0000f331.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF331 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 3fcb9817f2122c6e7f443c94c8514f188248546e074bbc61cbb8745582028324
font_01_sfnt_off00010b7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 1e1e6ed6a7c6e9bdd4e7aae705305537ee9035c1ea0eff42fa59da4e8915590b

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