Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3450a708e36325e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:37:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 00f76bab520ee690bb52a843c78b3860 SHA-1: 92ba8d1bcd40a184d5704da6ee552ef962d9fc04 SHA-256: b3450a708e36325ee842a2e638efc5292fb6d16187eedcf677b434424e1fd2ca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the embedded URLs and heuristic findings are sufficient to determine its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b16c380c811d2342cd6f0c05e87c05d2/vulen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vudafrique.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fee1a41684973163bf3d63de3514865/31204097888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurishupally.org/userfiles/file/73330479787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7605c367d---birumosinejopibotipow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vqpe4665iqk6m8gdojnai22rmp/weladirufoxigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67871a93f0cd6c27a5a090d67a96870e/jujituru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0811/ec69493d11920df9225640ddc705bf1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa0b1598677---60843532664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovodatar.hu/userfiles/file/mixipibejowazoganuzotixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/xulodogidenovawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91943121055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jerilyndavisrobison.com/clients/870655/File/fefunovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/162397019195758384882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10aa723e8b---vatavomota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunajecbiala.pl/upload/File/88624020052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqi4m7eoqd41733ckms6om5kl6/xobubumovugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k8nrfs5mm6vc7jnt477923f0qa/53019367949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuadepthanglong.com/images/ckeditor/files/5111948646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3bd7d5c52---rutisugenutevisirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anjhimayath.com/upload/file/71351400438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f45dd98a72---sulerajefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7tec.ru/userfiles/files/borapubevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e269aad444e---soxadakava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f3lr6hjmruougqud2gf8cb0oj/74516249336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f64567e64---8223184530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=class+8+odia+book+question+answerPDF 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_off0000c177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC177 16752 bytes
SHA-256: ee0486dbbd920e6afa314399ab3d927e698a38d7991865fc45f1df6af8d0005d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC36 11044 bytes
SHA-256: f2e3ce6f64776c7030f8b7eda187e28bfebd74786c393949b2234e9a06ddf167
font_02_sfnt_off000105e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1