Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd3d9d9b8b8451a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-25 23:32:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 71a1900670f4d5c57a766a2ba857bacb SHA-1: 38afd031049ccfdf41c87ef82be3ee4b8daa5ec1 SHA-256: fd3d9d9b8b8451a2ccb165ba078844b41fea6b27d9099a0efa3930bb099094e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the nature of the URLs suggest an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or host malicious files.

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://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b67954b350---7566891568.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835ce1dbb84---jugomozefabobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811a7c2565ca5f24a7cef052caf7b96e/33917242834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/revuguxinolonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/25330065279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a254d23440c17ddf2e52ee72e0d2a496/vuzuwuwatofowigeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/sidatujuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812c8d6a21d---81753859834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/dutokaxamokufili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aacef8ec1e2---sobariwoxulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webornate.com/viking1/uploads/files/18250283358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75fd1f4c9e96c2292386d0b5d1070491/86859597357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/bikujulijipali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro520.net/userfiles/file/16248223461889577851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swotin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd40a91cc3---86852156704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eis-pieschel.de/UserFiles/File/zirerapuxaragajok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976efb3f039---zavebupisijisujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joniliju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s350287tuesv6unbq0l1flgol4/lijavuvemasojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c31a300447b---48215876184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/jixenigidejibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhotel.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0po43v7opsgnnb7r27pcad7vg2/xavevajasixajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wecafephuket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9tdpr6huuq2lan1p8puvv8abgc/74389561108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095926723087---gafaribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolorenzino.eu/userfiles/files/34005975492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b928bbcb5ef---90214010795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=advanced+public+finance+and+taxation+cpa+notes+pdfPDF 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_off0000d790.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD790 19536 bytes
SHA-256: 0b37ca44cd99f627c89eb4786a77375c8751ae0e49080ae1f46dba5151e8a505
font_01_sfnt_off000109d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D5 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 11cb9435063f74261122b2247fc464ef1d272d8c8a5ddbc541039d008f6a1f6a
font_02_sfnt_off00012304.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12304 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1