Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3fab566e6a74bcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 17:03:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7dc66bff4014c1dc6a290f9690819c34 SHA-1: 05652bd4c110dec2089b5dbaeadeb4f932480edd SHA-256: d3fab566e6a74bcd839775538b9c56c1ba1fca87614696a02989e5d20e789d3b
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 functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other potentially malicious content. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external, compromised sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/986naum1vsi8tlbmm3pm271fvi/wadoboxabijimibiwi.pdf
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nfe5cr8m52bb1vv59opehqqgf8/79794719666.pdf
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b489d88573---39157834298.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb29215186ae2a938b322a50f2602d00/65381681430.pdf
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61313de403---66800710107.pdf
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d858io0t36glnlem4t1d7tf51/15038631248.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ltr7om4uu5itudjlhcmlqc8k05/welabir.pdf
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91f1bd55e2---10452242938.pdf
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/13367035139.pdf
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/lawolufoleregave.pdf
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bf2bda9b1---vilakivejuda.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-14/20210614103236850975.pdf
    • http://leaguengn.com/userfiles/file///742276312.pdf
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/29604557485.pdf
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sndao42ko6lg5jp2ggdpq3bu55/35190803425.pdf
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3jb13gvl825npa0alcoug0f45/sufanizusexi.pdf
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/32602274944.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268dqpv5utncdh3t6bclhuppi0/48228448739.pdf
    • http://gorillatheory.com/admin/upload/file/wovezad.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160791ad29008b---gedutuximuf.pdf
    • https://malikcolsys.com/userfiles/files/vuzep.pdf
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/605f563d112284515ec570d133939fdf/zoxadoxobikozedew.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=fundamentals+of+industrial+catalytic+processes+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dcc9.bin
67872292bc8e24990d7faa840c5d3f8008aa92f2dbbf553345b7746bcec10e18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC9 10972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f63e.bin
c42adbaf87de7a8c50bda7dbb47303e4d69a05dc1996523fb9bfb0f1ab66caf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63E 16616 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012161.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12161 16792 bytes