Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 985d3e3912ef32d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:35:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 256b472e53e634a946f5345a0e41a419 SHA-1: 3c0547fc2c7c3b1bdae49a1007dcb34cb05f909f SHA-256: 985d3e3912ef32d6bd72778e19ff19dc4b1fd7af95ed92e27a7473371c8a93a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or track clicks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19fa4d15a637230b7ae1a70eb8a953f4/15574395743.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3bf9c7dc9d3833dec77b3112a235a43/mizitugojopuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiambreszav.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70e29a1a873098e0c29a79c75097aeef/mexemibowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okhse917oq6i22s20p3g0kllfd/57949641525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autohondl.cz/userfiles/file/81279483023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b19c6f2cceb---lesiwevinunojipuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5f8f4df60---85418737776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/34161797672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec1bcd91b7---23747843033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160796849d95c2---bomafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d556da49f1---18663984511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/358b9265cdb3a20b50bf529af47a3727/bufemifotewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/kajemumunedetimetepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc20bf94567---34784503993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c4669a48---97401179678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5f0e144e---95681237231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/73167133422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjeclinic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofavixubemul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfda5b58e37f65c632cca150b5af0d2b/gupitipimopojirilasor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://messtores.ca/fck_user_files/file/35817874303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609914a47e162---nojuretepomumago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/genegajirotodemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k2salight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d32315d404bfbef0cdd752fa0cb7e37/pibigejetirazepub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46tva6d8gdni2bjn1vjsmn4br7/gowizomuxolid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mcgraw+hill+chemical+engineering+series+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED81 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 5812d8d77036b11b9eacce4e749576d044fe9ec70340979d1107c652db474c15
font_01_sfnt_off00010673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10673 16892 bytes
SHA-256: 9f087ef38e22345232e8a66916abd60848e5685d669a82f2e5ce9888c0751927
font_02_sfnt_off000132b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1