Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 403b3a1b66ba9626…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 18:21:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4b7dd597617f25a4f81a1545b5d528f5 SHA-1: 8e61e3b815f66d71b9bea5dc1cc19ebc0a5beb06 SHA-256: 403b3a1b66ba9626f66f480324e055e581d2b3b19ef8dc813f1817c88fca993e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

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://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1426353d5e1bd197380a7ac508b64c7/jalomowu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160daaa9f308a7---96522871484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/6990385069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/bosepoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8e50a21fa---pumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64f4987dced2f021c93f794816313cd9/71912979523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb793b10ef---zenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divinenine.net/userfiles/file/63217794764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hd34k2saia3aavsnu48rq6dt0/8488949032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e1700926e34---zagotelununip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukicda.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021062820450380554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/jejemiweli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607545d04c647---2896562863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43080315686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba0c8738d7e39de5cb28a2bb0da95d41/94477128175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luatsutiengtrung.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/5334518579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/34776374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ee80e883e---36969600597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae80235d95---gujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a30be33598a22ba04c298d9067ca635/80055126764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b417aaa6b2c---zuranumapotike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c6e9c3fe87de59b1ee5c741f28a8a8/wadujofufujixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/717ec395d2839da5dc1b360e58d3cf9a/gusowimutudijogasokenusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160769f4bee971---90597447295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b833d0831a7d19b389399e12c502f7a/40140994599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/jivesukoseniwezepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=numerical+differentiation+example+problemsPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86F 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 69f8dd95bc7c5650373a6f9d7cf1689e1c89ab5bbc09b7f7c581aedc30671c19
font_01_sfnt_off0001120d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120D 16468 bytes
SHA-256: 55b95e1cc8ba815fed2833a87ce51c66c71daa987392581cfdd12ab7d7a5ed23
font_02_sfnt_off000128e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E1 19260 bytes
SHA-256: 1e4431b20e99fc6390e217010526b192a3d173d657936fcd5b42ab3008fef8a7
font_03_sfnt_off00015c7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15C7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1