Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3b28b4d0c867937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-08-15 03:11:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: fdef9e5fd5acafd3f21541f7db6da30e SHA-1: 39a06be4c42240fa4f4e604eeafbe028ed297474 SHA-256: a3b28b4d0c8679373c38108165f88c830cedb70d016389085d040bb59b938c21
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites and other disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6c46d8212b81c0186f71e350ef6641a/89391610668.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/bemuvura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/zubadatogoveb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzhrjd.com/images/uploadfile/files/65545489415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wedooverseas.com/userfiles/file/25774024742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/nukosedezeroweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/85904398266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kkm0sph45tv8ov33rp95louaqi/tinugewigawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosmopolitanhotelbg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/79472894189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryouhurt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51442788374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bbe6937228f4d6b85d939059db0114c/julozejegomodipesare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pytextiles.com/userfiles/file/28642278945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae9c5761e5---6031044264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bb66e27f5---wejaxomepakamigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9ggskepfhhbmjb2fts7ok3ds6/taditexedalunumuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinamex.info/uploads/news_file/rurobuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608357cb8a257---65304902768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://au-zlato.sk/upload/files/30169202029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fc6224d425fa55f518f8adbc9da900f/90433581814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sancheonglittletheaters.com/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210729192250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yucehukuk.com/resimler/files/86353344405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d699c05c4a93922ac5c0c081b2d5ba3/sawufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peopleoftheheath.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ccd1f2264b8---24957728558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+ortografia+para+5+primaria+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_off0000cbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF7 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 3d4ffdae05315d5621c196be85f73520e7f22a9da8bbca2892e3c62e7295aa22
font_01_sfnt_off0000e58c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58C 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 68ac11a226d35fbf7b7572b08c8590c0dd944d6cc9a8e1a1a56ad6a9bbf090d1
font_02_sfnt_off000111b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1