Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3458b7f3bed5247…

MALICIOUS

PDF

184.1 KB Created: 2021-08-02 08:03:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c1501e624ea07c763015a90518da2c09 SHA-1: 69857c03f7771ce89f66084a284a2ea2d21882b9 SHA-256: a3458b7f3bed5247cae2cc7712e9c9b0068b5cf0b11455a3fbe54981576397c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no direct clues to its purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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 https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3df0d6a3be6e991692dcac6a0afb00ce/gowetolusodowevimu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/takazalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jordanfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/51/51534e3e38036466a76ca8a024fd4923/File/46365674910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caryhigh1987.com/clients/41333/File/32318346371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d4cc3927b4---56812276713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77aedf17161e8f553240a248f1764c1f/jimifojiwedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/8901943846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/nirozukaweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/vugupojalutawisivadowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/33056578717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://filtrydokoparek.pl/img/all/tunemoropuguba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/62805303905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f4c390fc62ec88e61cdd7c3afbd607/jedikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160943e070b8a5---43400587792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b90dd4cfb1---bimuvevopetijem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiswaryamatrimonials.com/fck_uploads/file/kinukebawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l5frvv3lc51ph6ok1plpf7334c/54014688475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/fojelafedujelefuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caa3231d70b---98967585347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stl-hk.net/userfiles/92473284843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69487be3b3657e1da491e7e529874240/93598124945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+take+prednisone+20mg+for+10+daysPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/56953023104.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_off000271a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x271A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000289b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x289B7 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 19b939b503e23d441935d8cef685eb97a5a8313450924baefab2ea2d50d79a49
font_02_sfnt_off0002b6b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B6B4 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 8ecc524c7d8dd02ad4709359e1187cd58f8f30a27109f3956ed8844ece7934bc

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