Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3265b80abe78ecc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-06-25 13:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fa2deba29135029755a7d1d6447513cc SHA-1: 7fdf09095afcfc05b9f89b21242e9e31f4ae404c SHA-256: b3265b80abe78eccdbd02671ac56ca07b6a00320b794c9a687cd7973a6958126
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple PDF files hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or content distribution scheme. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external links and the detection signature indicate a malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia3ra2pqk330fvk6g8v7pc3ae9/25174415828.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leavingcare3plus.ch/userfiles/files/gutimanavukijigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmdtni6bo77a5labhussmscj80/dukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5663d3d90---rovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpisiluman.com/contents//files/kerufijimazawomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruoumoc.com/upload/files/movubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/75482513468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memoservicesrl.it/file/24841863888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22203819b790ea557666fbed2fb201f8/38045249748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944f6b5ce9a---pokadopifexeveworab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083d21001d84---xatikusosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5hsdllrucbksj564loamcevc2/41322111399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b12d96eee8---ladovikipasidinugapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1df187708b3b45d647787a0e90232385/89895583210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkingpeople.info/userfiles/file/57084279320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/surumuwedowepuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=largest+grocery+store+in+the+worldPDF 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_off0000f382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF382 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B99 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 569d7f2030bf7ae1bfaa982d05beab5c1fc4b1e0d002d40dcbe8afe7d2e54d6b
font_02_sfnt_off00012447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12447 16632 bytes
SHA-256: c955703d7bf04b4b057d7eaa46b1e620a1ed3cf905b3d5a64b30cd2293ce1194