Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3b7be0c322a35dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:05:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 75bccd63e4d089095fd610c42b87c1ab SHA-1: b23aee652e90e6309e5f952acf9ccaa45410a6d0 SHA-256: d3b7be0c322a35dcb2c55d4009223a7674325137df8b4c0fbe56b7d36c4f88a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially malicious or phishing content hosted on these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/jinosifoxupitozipefal.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e090f3bf5cb---xifasefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/609fd6778f581f247455d94b4d3c035b/kerozutukabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omak1968.com/clients/71178/File/18638915236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3f960116d474638bf3406223aa8d9d/jugigamabefopuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/fipinatisimez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/zivemilovajaliwupesivixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/zovivobolufoniro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c361125e8a3---32125318348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/zubazizakudagigewipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cintabogor.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/josanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k1ig9u64mpk8p4a42ceks6glp1/fogegiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210617145014288185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/fisavusufoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/29339140313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup2.com/contents//files/tireretuwusupewitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8367c57b8---39048739055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7ef548d0e---majepezazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/daxelenazab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfortinnbarrie.com/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/59869472350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/bakasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akgikorea.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/muzerajotasalidinapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c357584b899---jamepikitijowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b493908db4e---98536654080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=holidays+in+wallingfordPDF 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_off0000f107.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF107 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 7b2ca7113c3b5705e47d261828ae28949cfa002b4e2ce39b383f27a575a4e998
font_01_sfnt_off000108b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B9 16964 bytes
SHA-256: 1b01260a2b64373aa78dd455813b577f8f2b528b5dd418d870fe8b05e82470cd
font_02_sfnt_off00013516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13516 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1