Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3949f53cfcde7d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

149.4 KB Created: 2021-06-28 23:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 12de100d542905bed92664ccb53aa6bb SHA-1: f09c0f1769fcd4681e89a863e3aa19e0f8d7f111 SHA-256: a3949f53cfcde7d72604852793f1d97652c7f6eecd9616f41d130248179d8e77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9511

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://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a69ef03ad58a1c3f18af23e930a7e89f/26991812630.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/38866394969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nissanotogovap.com/uploads/images/files/zumelosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8c6492c3a---rofomilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1rt3sj2v212af2k2ibc464ir1/wopanusofit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2eeae61882706c2fbc5ff7df39019f9/likasotiwusowafuzamijus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primewestelectrical.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd8e8b3008fff47b130a6621ffba9cf2/64718058911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160881e8027f1f---6299320223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/67364717264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a1e90cc6bb555ec6d4ddb5166379946/9988110269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2c03a31f76---vazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p95b0nhcu6i98orr82mfsvm4i1/gogefujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modnyi-buket.ru/uploads/files/16371204401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc3ddf34203---68732101785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/7341439402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7aefcf9f9---biwiforamuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5c753b97d0---16690266529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/wejuzuvexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkacca.com/userfiles/rezesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/50142299348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/307ea00792ea7e92845174c9d28e4d93/17553500262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bcc757c9f2f4fd63a89b3a3139b0ac8/suwudejivafabadola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.de/userfiles/file/75574776694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherdallo.com/file/gugoranojogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=eyes+nose+lips+fantastic+duoPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001c545.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C545 18504 bytes
SHA-256: 15ba375ea2480d82f4d0151a04cc3f099f5e25061fcd6c56732f5db8f17e92a6
font_01_sfnt_off0001f5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F5BB 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 88cbbe57808d8ce55dfbba5a069ec8efbb2c2633b24501c2935f955c393de802
font_02_sfnt_off00020e81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20E81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00022692.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22692 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_04_sfnt_off00023bce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23BCE 2668 bytes
SHA-256: c58f350ec98de3ee34fb9e17179d8ae6bbee9aad6f95efe3e855d7809b2b6622