Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3ae2902c3bfc8d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 05:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 10805edb6bf920f7eaa28c76ff2fd8d8 SHA-1: 6ba4478e9bc79237ad38fb9921edb9c88c8bd312 SHA-256: f3ae2902c3bfc8d786c18c87112e30f7243a7c6f64ea5c6f68dbc674ad33c7a3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URIs point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comprehension+passages+with+questions+for+grade+12 PDF link annotation
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160feb31ac5391---48785757093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117d82ae6fc7---87875332313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/74287937425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/632ff243d0061f5576b3faaa6d88c217/ruzutulonadixezifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sazjah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a42d1cd75f---27559916663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/vuvaliwese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents//files/32054673879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n9mmuk338m6lh5egf79h879gkm/manifav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4darchitecture.org/img/all/90113382903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/32850173573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d5f2c1e3e---43511465915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/30799488753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopguepes72.fr/userfiles/file/18161901166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/lijenovami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/tidigolomovinidado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/74762544505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thcsducthang.pgdbactuliem.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17431023420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abroadster.com/files/3633260458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72084721094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/9213239270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c83ef2149---ximifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0001163d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1163D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012e4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4F 17560 bytes
SHA-256: d8852380c9bf92ea2439cdaebefe45bb1c0a6a3e7df8b5603560bd1c457657a9
font_02_sfnt_off00015bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15BF9 11436 bytes
SHA-256: 8a86c35a27f1eb1bc75d2e3ca80b4b53cf2ada295c3968dc51b90b4abf2cd84c