Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3580cf5ed26e80d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-08-16 20:02:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7ce3ecbe80629393564136e6ebf24216 SHA-1: 0528f219415705a9233e01c51dbcb988bb2d156b SHA-256: b3580cf5ed26e80d60313fc91a07cc38b037a65af3e9f019e0022f741aa91cfa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8sfcsbt37slmabehofol1tv5q2/96648260582.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/telolimosesezonosubunutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/jujes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e31dc896d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/56776266758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/sexowodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c2154d2b0---33508762568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607641fa316f1---losurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16910357458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/pinavivusaweseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32707e7269e7be42b1d3c27ef7fedb02/75558840403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlytech-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/zivijubidowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebbers-schilderwerken.nl/uploads/files/jopolutarowaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886a5b57e99---tekezepanibinabidotuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/xebudarivaxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160768196956e7---jurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntct-dz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/badatilisedilesegugowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607841b43329c---vepukuxelabidusera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607234e44d37e---825777326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/pikurudutida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6afa5f48d72fd726510de366dcaca7dc/kitolidozuzawosidatufosut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buenlvbukkb4arqvdiepkoe3vk/87452375514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16104f6f0b639b---latesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--oy2b9bv81anouola.com/upload/file/202107251454388840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sample+motivation+letter+for+master%27s+degree+in+finance+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_off0000f078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF078 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001088f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088F 11140 bytes
SHA-256: 7713d83e6a5de1603aaba3a4e64032583f4c997140cf32558e6f5c0a235f51ea
font_02_sfnt_off0001225d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1225D 17168 bytes
SHA-256: d977a4ac5bd095494033968b24c6cded334458f12050af8ab32cc6e8bed91a55