Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3bfa3ee2b5d8697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:43:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cf48f4be7a23e7359d02767ec87fa934 SHA-1: 3c760794a732755c94f83d74c532e614d953e63d SHA-256: f3bfa3ee2b5d8697bda2ee3812bbee9c486d6f1ea6b16c73febea055248255f6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420ad1a00a7---5352873176.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shinies.ru/img/lib/file/mavetogufojamerixobipabaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/28723028916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phukientubepxinh.info/gomsu/sanpham/anh/files/76201288216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109141136594358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12350206862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d100ff04---50763717083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161415050eb2c9---41751285492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auswallendorf.de/userfiles/file/fomakexewifaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64390140705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://varosom.hu/userfiles/files/romajevixugolawubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemtron-vostok.ru/media/file/walisaxonogufovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sial.pl/galeria/file/givoxumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/51948036434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210906_153049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-0411.com/userfiles/file/20210902053354_doojrz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/fefevomegitepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/xozabodovovisezodurutimim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/6612850518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epmachine.ru/d/files/1378524251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rogersdesignhouse.com/uploads/files/gefetibilivarudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capri.lt/userfiles/files/22627999289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paraglider24.de/pics/fotos/1/file/kuzega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/samifowakewelida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/mazave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=where+can+i+watch+cheaper+by+the+dozenPDF 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_off0000dbb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB8 18480 bytes
SHA-256: ba998530f978be0c16ee80d3c0277042b1d8d23ed84fde4d7c309c5550ee550a
font_01_sfnt_off00010c57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C57 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 24d3498a03c7c1d130a5a8d6c3276e59df4a4dd5fe84ea5ec65f6cf2e4579153
font_02_sfnt_off00012509.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12509 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1