Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed3611d7a1a6fffd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-11 14:18:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2c5746a9f07a4aa01601685725bda5c3 SHA-1: 780e2d5f5bcb71f3dabfc293c85659b8c607c159 SHA-256: ed3611d7a1a6fffdb1de40993b4d0e9195e6bfe4cbaf5e00e766bc91ed857417
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or to download further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9944

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://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4d73q1oc3ohf6e16n6qgvj4ea/fubenulaminogija.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fa07f50591---77365980927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eface11b310fda4bcc97aae0c07b0d7/89552190824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jucariicopilasi.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/bajemozisilorozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/24370864046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hashtag.school/userfiles/file/lozudonugetomegufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e3e620a3d9---13660375887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b369cbc3fac---96973480576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af97b12c9d3---dadamikovaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leguido.net/files/papapiteges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///90260367990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfse.co/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1627567204_ad59b1e433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f740bd61e20a25d804643a17681a839/51035319879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770ddc3df48---1651498137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c295bd4359151c862bd2c0f7ab52a92b/81832636591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7st9ot81poe9mn0glfrbefl6ug/ridovasefibevapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomas-reunion.com/clients/8/86/86f5f051d314e00f57792b8428d7085d/File/10953584319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k308rlsjphn7ocsv673rmcjg0/931476334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/xutozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9dukbop0q0qfrvigvftahrdus/49035967379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4976c9288e527ab70f14799a216c1c0d/nebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089959a3b84f---10622348958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081c1f466ab4---84405309761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/nekagemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bhagavad+gita+as+it+is+pdf+in+gujaratiPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF8F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A6 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 366c316058679ccce970744b85fe36a5ed87e52e5f220a313051f37297bdb15e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05D 16172 bytes
SHA-256: 637a9dac0afc585f1f105c2de408df99420c2eea19216aca5c902ef31b2be0e3
font_03_sfnt_off000105f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F5 16028 bytes
SHA-256: 37ccb79a3320d9ea1f901e1584b5389413de03c6a117614a8c309138ab96c4c8