Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d751579a95a828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:28:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b86287aba27f53aead8688faa15083e0 SHA-1: a36756f86f9febc2dbff3ce209fca2314af225f8 SHA-256: f3d751579a95a82808925b3818e10a47dfc28445eb29e8e92e2ae2dc0ec72a0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct textual clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6d7048d93e61825f34d79359c00da0/95060774722.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/tonawodorexuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/57214648055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608234cba4b52---64811575245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c02430353963775292caebe6142e9a0/14657088659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talani.nl/userfiles/image/file/26838015853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://specialbrands.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da0dfb27fd28a397f8451780428096d5/kigivafosov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weymouthhighschoolclassof62.com/clients/5/50/50fe23896e84432c97ff20d680692bb9/File/48276596254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thongthien.vn/upload/files/45555471817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e768d49a87---17007399680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/32547734588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611457498f9d3---ziwap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/zusedifefagab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128d902bcd00---48878232318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/56218989250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alquilerbares.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607699515712c---4132662773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malbreil.com/userfiles/file/17445408991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/dakakijisavuwawipobuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbb68c0ce03---74237655841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/sokomuvedibanajod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/tovijemokonojokejakomaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29bbdafc2dbc4e36a1b3b3c66b87aa4c/41444170578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611862e538978---78651901040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=metaphor+worksheets+2nd+gradePDF 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_off0000d527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD527 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 3414b6231bab16f0838fe52ef8d7058ebafb17cb6ac5aee911c4c73973222d3e
font_01_sfnt_off00010091.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10091 10824 bytes
SHA-256: e20a4aaea08427f132b2737acaf8b72125b310d0ee1e8a3513871abee94103c4
font_02_sfnt_off00011974.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11974 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1