Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3a775cb0aca9c04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

142.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 41d8d8d2003271599a42876918bc9204 SHA-1: af81132828811855ccb87fd09fb707574cae7be4 SHA-256: b3a775cb0aca9c04ddfa3e1c8331334b2e6b431ced1c6c713d856c0a8182e1b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=water+sanitation+process+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f028e8a5c3---xiludaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0805567e1d8180cf2b28604b486b86c4/6376326815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/37417610726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1fdac98398a9013b115670e17dce2506/70915215158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccswcd.com/userfiles/file/58590798704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dazowibuforatawonegilabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youngshiny.com/userfiles/file/1624889715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hytechplus.com/userfiles/file/21844331616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mfc87qfeglkh6nmsc46u3jbb56/musazavusaxamigonazive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/3353893031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860da822cb8---615335740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/326cd028f1db85833aca9fcae381cbbd/noximevilewomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/vevevelifakapiwogedepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://av72-reklama.ru/userfiles/file/16276111196aaec2a5cecaf1af293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/50530158249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/5556229810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5bf21baeb---metapigivebige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607385ab0e22b---62481016274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/92702033436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/wibak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/68586965311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://guineaservicesproviders.com/gsp/files/75975261929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1mosref.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vizokiduvunibavelunerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14cacfd704af176f6a750581df599f4a/7765181391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bischofs-scheune.de/userfiles/file/gesuxawu.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_off0001c865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C865 10560 bytes
SHA-256: b416a6d95dd17ec26a2dc2f630f88e6a0c75970079860c6499c05edd51389203
font_01_sfnt_off0001e09e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E09E 19812 bytes
SHA-256: 38c42d7ae2f052c1c1b876c2bdf0130920c6d45d78ca4fb1542220488382f0b1
font_02_sfnt_off0002145c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2145C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1