Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3fdd1cb933620c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-07-09 21:58:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 9afdc2659418cfba889b8a12dff93a8d SHA-1: 20e8eab559bb8c69a1d6407f8faae9a611258d21 SHA-256: a3fdd1cb933620c368b95d9ca673b1c83af8f57d82e8c37be77ee3f5d5f99aa6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external URIs pointing to websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=active+directory+replication+interview+questions PDF link annotation
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69s85rmjmkab191e3b8uj5vuab/53816926859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/13237511016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19953e60c0---perusuropazunixipufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b66a406626---17035870668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16cbea75fd1be9891502b633d90d38cb/97106543561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m8f2n497pm9ce49qrp8o8bfgu1/majawesafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a32a16b66d---vafavemimuzapazowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///fadovazetefixakisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be7fc282efd---80923694645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609071bea0965---51026447654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b6e928e71cd480d66b081555e940156/lanovelumokojixezulavekaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801909a0a52---dikoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794ec830a65---dosorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/70369685200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a07a8520c47---19394356834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassung4you.de/bilder/file/xibofivarol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7825e0fc92---84162816050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ae33566caf---58480444403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hram-uspeniya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lafosibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vieclamquantri.net/upload/files/nusapuzuvafapolesov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/21935219498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamker.hu/userfiles/file/52486925102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d8d0593d9---perumeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/28785711990.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_off0000ef20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF20 11000 bytes
SHA-256: b81b4f5803432f15d15ca6796673b1d1b399f440b9825f1f718d0313c55d492c
font_01_sfnt_off000108af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108AF 15452 bytes
SHA-256: 4fefef1483a459f1d7589a6933b59e7a34cb684e2a410b754c9ca3b1b768a1b0
font_02_sfnt_off00013007.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13007 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1