Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3a8587b0ec3857d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-06-08 07:19:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 45d872710c26b67775858f2426c3edc6 SHA-1: b989daa683a5bed0c069520864cc279a817119ba SHA-256: d3a8587b0ec3857d59e77f40b6455eabfabcc1034725c5b6a971b9b5b50dbef9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and potentially malicious URLs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to search terms, suggesting a lure for SEO-based traffic redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+replace+drive+belt+on+john+deere+l110 PDF link annotation
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d59e0a7020---zafowapupasusasumodugele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalazeri.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c0c6951hcapb361dlsujpmqi2/32479781739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc709fe632a---85907875695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/37757457098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210516165150_798711609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e9f7b21a0a---sixakojadojolivalewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609958655aaa6---39717694029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745fc18bbc0---65756539727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nqurtsh9fmjetvcmj8p5iumti/24748820918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b9bf31c9376fce675fe8c2f79522634/45198555320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ba39f0276---vonufafezaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f528bf7509877f5aad327d678162cc/zotajiwugexomimurud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2338dd9dccca144f33c9c4865867f0f/julixizizezodupapujegatid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/72631256155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6k4ticib9gsvs1488bbgvb31k/vosemame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d231.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD231 5292 bytes
SHA-256: ea4a35764930535b453a31ec1355d48864042c5e677a6328ece935b0afc29022
font_01_sfnt_off0000e430.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE430 9892 bytes
SHA-256: f469b2e412472d636030b6275f59594b0276fe6f75a034e5929699c4cc801a1c
font_02_sfnt_off000105e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34