Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3d086db39ca9b9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:50:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 01faa83c27ef1c201684469769e24870 SHA-1: 3bc4e451613cf0de070cb523dfbf64100eeadda3 SHA-256: a3d086db39ca9b9a3ec20afc0e11c225c357f4d61125cf737eeae688b1e747ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious or phishing content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af401a20d57---bujilejafenitiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/bilebovaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2c96de1f337be71130a33df66b77d68/wunujuzezuvorujitolozowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dd0a42178---89524023754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasymusic.it/userfiles/files/89399733697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dssqrikifk4vansbpl9qjj4u03/18452847562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6c2b80f5e---vedaxuvononatetumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4bff268a86da5b2c045547e2333687e8/12855112535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/woxipuridap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4cc83ee25e---13418798515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenhungstone.com/uploads/image/files/vekewigavoxaviwonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dblbtech.com/userfiles/file/16510549181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/894fb9d1fe2d7e930a2f1bbaf536e702/dadijepitun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s4shoipd1g565delg1gk48c4gg/22884998213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ba78f29ed---47624533988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4096bd505e---fijepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa33ee6ae89---mefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a45b67b5b236fabf71b2ecaf4858e79c/gutoruwenajutixixefediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/nitowili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/pifetamatupokawewufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletvital.hu/uploads/files/11521214901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n2jnnomcvhoa73b532vue51j1k/rabupuxeviduwilikanetodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/79865494804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/400659c9faac6d85d2a8404016532a59/59222425207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+theme+of+this+is+what+it+means+to+say+phoenix+arizonaPDF 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_off0000e1be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BE 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 96aeccd85cc70c9fd1eba2a6de54668aa289fe2057b7d6daf2ed7fed55f25d3f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB08 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 82103f1a826137eceee5fd6d1fe5c0ba6c120832a5856b9e7807c9eaf77fe558
font_02_sfnt_off00012840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12840 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1