Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3ac6f332eaa4036…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 27ccb25bad6eb035d317a3cc0ad0b590 SHA-1: 97613f2bdcb4efb1c1eb84992cbda66d6bf90cbe SHA-256: b3ac6f332eaa4036e5fa1f87f93cffbecb191384dc6ce4e661f08e9c1b258e89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malware or phish for credentials. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent through its extensive use of external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=remmert+complex+analysis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a978f6d63c9---pamuzidivonawusomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/tobirozalapusesufunopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vuiiiep4l693g1pkm2bf0aejg5/4613061809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811494fc9ac5b9cbae7edd61b9c23a3a/bokizokiziveporuvumomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddb635d12dc---25055261752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/738b74053de9da26aec3cf285b100975/61561118035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74ddb8c2c6b7cd4ee936176551788a4c/3758204630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skspiti.com/userfiles/files/sewadufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/zifenegevevefepetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e76674802deca143d365ab12a7a65f48/51900046638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed8f304f840---kejofev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/userfiles/files/nabibajuvunafufotijel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d25200b0f---19806549968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc1e18006e---11355132311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acta-mobilier.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sifekapozatimawetitada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grancom.by/upload/docs/gexukozipijovakorutuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba4e4dc3a85b0ea8efa367bcbd824121/18098895048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/rogugodivuxexovawamin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/91150364823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livingkaneohe.com/userimages/423515968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/17974531233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cb611e4867---rerepesak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://walkofagesvt.org/clients/0/0e/0e42319052772b195a43ba3ede0f03e0/File/guxifarowene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/66843923571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102e16967585---31722618710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandravanshi.com/userfiles/file/77920556316.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_off0000e627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE627 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 476d607ae4856ab981907209db8aa34be7b6205784dfd624641d50de17a4544a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117EE 20084 bytes
SHA-256: 50bb53675c40c0f7f4bf19dc76f32be0c6736807ba15356ef2fe0e6d228cb085