Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3580bf8a056784…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 07:51:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8af02d76395fa481c3bf7ce61dee3dfe SHA-1: 78945548fb9828bdd0c8a0f481e096fd1cbabc47 SHA-256: ca3580bf8a056784866f5b911fdfbf45fe40fd49499aa38771c1d025c6bd77a5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. These links appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to other malicious PDFs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bda3c11f50a---60331173583.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc9e155d9fc31c963ad9cf1c8c106492/32915766750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/sovebasorenow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/434ce702b2ad63ccafa9cdb9a93b7aa4/lewelanigirijobif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee71f112dd---nagisodumopotozedumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ddb76fca57389d2120dea32748ba63/voxibezoxevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cjt71j914fmr4hdqs1pdlrfj16/25093123461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50fb8db51a2280b5ba001a7a7ac60465/48706151683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/618050263d91e6a31cb981391cba93ae/fejedoronusuzakuvedukevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srlamn.com/clients/0/00/00e84243199fd86ca7c15d66a0237eb0/File/pemejuxobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/76819951125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/85875134266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bobv3o6ogpt50cio2jp4g8e0m5/xituvovowezavula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4e03e11ac---89687811802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://big-cash.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eqjve3l73rml8c74bjc4is1o6/rofuxisinukogetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/51980196378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608217c55bfaf---50289582264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakirkoytemsilcisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d3da3e78e0---gedisifaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe0f4a790b---tojunukujajonudamebenuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10lqjb6ogr7v5igrnapvk7ddk0/gegifobosetivekawanepeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omlo6brt0p125apm3kp0s293d2/wisokowenepokem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19579740765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=i+wish+that+the+day+would+never+comePDF 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_off0000bcfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCFA 16204 bytes
SHA-256: f5f97927d1e278456c127f23ecc23a11f48b87c3a63e60ff2316901f9abeaf3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED4 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 50f955844fa16a4170bfbbca86172f74084cb0376fdbfc0db9b4728c5ea7ee5c