Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3a685354d855c11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:18:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 13ffa98c4af67699c69ab602bd196f8f SHA-1: 383c19b99f3cf64df0137bba7b981a494e6b178c SHA-256: b3a685354d855c1123530b31b1793069f55c31d805ffb13235fd46a28366d360
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites that host further PDF files. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://theopenhouseclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ac4f2b0704c74a9395e04679cbb639/tagebivavosagezazid.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.knickmeier.net/images/pageimg/file/tasefidadiwumoduzaxaviwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7703adc5fa2cac3ec7ba5c5c561c2172/reban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8838ddda335e2bb681e9988d3064ddfd/38995778308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c41ea67e71---62424525782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryamghiasi.com/images/upload/files/jesizowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e43a749649---kafigipikinenenusawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trafikyaren.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ta1rb2km7o2jfb3ku7orcvjm1/86080993391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9unr6n3h0suktc45eh1tudattu/bobijip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d615c1b18---78887067384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familycrawford.com/clients/3/31/31f1fdc6e90c562b7578e9c437f7c1bf/File/91222340893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c972466a718---90368644027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/nuwelimelobebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topupdana.com/contents//files/65252483464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/jasagimukof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/35507118841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasici-pristroje-eshop.cz/files/file/82495612469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.net/contents//files/86761225626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harasim.cz/uploaded/files/95124970896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2feeccafda17786f8551a0d3b79d4e43/nubof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41bcab73d8---womiziliridadaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5f0l2en4nu6at7onva9dv1gm3/55263537220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e2d62c0840403ea5558710b3ad9b3f/47883660783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+cursed+rogue+sea+of+thievesPDF 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_off0000f490.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF490 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 2dc5a78d129e21279209586c5d3a8458af69336732595cd11ea669ec41a48a3c
font_01_sfnt_off00010d34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: ccc5a5be9ec8fdff1dd3f54440325df9caa03e94bade7b66b54f796e98956bb4
font_02_sfnt_off00013855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13855 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1