Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3ca4195198de5aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 02:20:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9423361bc74deadda257637ae8465d72 SHA-1: 388114b143d6792e1b9150d9bf8bc6e7ce2c7149 SHA-256: d3ca4195198de5aa8a62153562f8897010b5a2538142d9866b2d45b544969851
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a pattern of redirecting users to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://hwayinn.com/image/files/20210622_185747.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://briljant-maleri.se/UserFiles/files/37926760606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/xetakixukobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/batirofivilolivorogitone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qkmedica.com/uploads/userfiles/file/59837517496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b537b4313---15211003470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5d4e153855---30976556738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b16tdkin6kqt7q5hdvnhuq1mu/7626057583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c9a98994f---86257102403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/lokipuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ud2-140.com/files/56300923489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosofortkauf.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8c83kc2qgplc4p7n2aa728tun/relamegemarukozalosatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitsubishilongbien.vn/images/ckeditor/files/vekigumavima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee99b03860---78161122075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qjpvpa5l665rng10rtc4r7ngkl/65828298280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6ce142b802---rogojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/88292489722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90788afae2e6e347bbbfe922ddc471ee/67553980154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c731dc3bfd---jebugafanomijumatokiwixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/doguzurake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba1266f3cf---jomijinogibigaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b673ef674c963ad62ab95d0ba10042b/bixibom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/653d08b3cac4043fb0ce86d7c406a546/xobavanusefowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/skdjat29bobsadne3mq6pgeir1/pibamamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0fd11f8d8dd4e4e97b918c6f13fb71b/nopepodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=limiting+bandwidth+per+devicePDF 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_off000142de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142DE 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 7bde00461e78ff3c1674d11d87f17adbd5619038d22ba4bfa2c4d32e8d70ed2e
font_01_sfnt_off00015b67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15B67 17692 bytes
SHA-256: c1e38960286d7ba75948e63c786458e5aba87b8c6e172ff79d4a200be3b2c6ef
font_02_sfnt_off000189ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1