Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3592451b8de250f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-05-28 11:56:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3c21e22692aa9cf2581146bfc6d2b22d SHA-1: 86fdbf41aad4a2bd98c912a5dd7e7c62a6c46baf SHA-256: d3592451b8de250f16999d1d232c8a5e4302e6897aa91abe968dc1c4cc0bf639
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially disposable hosting domains, disguised as a guide for resetting smart home devices. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the hosting suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a57f52d54---kadapas.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ce5e0bef8---34497708777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72b6af7efb2ab52c5c6cfdf890fdbe8f/rademeluwugumixinivemowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087235c1a450---66924471023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a2bbbda0f088dc6ab1463ef1cc2fad6/33967898942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/96783477341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/920ec460d0d84b5ff108c8a7992a1663/91287032880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/26671319696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3594fe682420a02d5719f9e1c8521a60/kesome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlineexpert.in/userfiles/file/gomuwarelalikugora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a805a4ff58f172c62d2b6ffd0ce898d4/buvatatozipenigadefetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c6dd1936feaeed90c71725fe5fde38/xisogudozupugukobuxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d394d533a---mofiloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8619ac1e10575ca290b629b162f78db/26495683793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02baf4882109681def50945c4e9b6058/xoxolamipajamozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j14m6b61m7s0nioo46vokohulc/32108042454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+wiz+lightsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC13 4840 bytes
SHA-256: 2b5f0fe7627cf4efa713ae2428939a610b68939dc37ccce34b6e79a375b8e900
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC99 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 11fa64cfcffcd63037356fcd4d4e661e33ad8f87e36163d034f9b8b039c24a15