Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3b1ba43a8445c39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 21:00:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d619e71bbddd5bfa916f23b4f3af35c5 SHA-1: fb5928b15d12e0f5ee70ae12d621b72cfa39d39d SHA-256: d3b1ba43a8445c399f903b88d3444015ee42f346c660c36fec3f9851f4e7cc8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a link farm used for initial compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e8caa60d3---50805971506.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://digireg.gr/upload/57022025999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/divcnh6rjissnbn3hhjjjkh94c/92872591998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a0aaf34172cdcc6fafa751ed1452424/luwikerofexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/21301251221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanders-scottfamily.com/clients/26926/File/podipedijirozizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe921a6cc8---tosare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45b47697b3aa8fdb9de1bed63308ed8d/fojufizogesesebebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/45762465061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarclab.eu/userfiles/files/nidagawipabijegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejovafuzulunidokulosozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f6401480b0---80466921239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/79792713794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877c9758f1c---46487591044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/86329915775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workprohealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b4fc5177d1---21265321085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/22067407482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e859aad5667---neguvijopizuzawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parkettworld.com/upload/files/lefusizubebepugejavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/43473953735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/25084735305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delawaretravelmedicine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b19102fefd---52995279218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b32ab045b9d---68091053309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/63285614305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+size+is+a+nike+youth+xlPDF 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_off0000cace.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCACE 15940 bytes
SHA-256: 0d3c55eeb39cd59ab28e97d48e1966724738a4b88b10d2dee046c7d674f9c3df
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C1 10564 bytes
SHA-256: b4b24bc0ccf9c961101d9b522c3a141ba73686d6b59801da4fb4df02b57a9e6a
font_02_sfnt_off00010bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BEC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1