Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1df3b946bd9e9f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 00:51:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 23a837b341de6f1b19a800f733f4a44a SHA-1: 2ea2f9f88f084e6ce36ab294ffaa25280e06f114 SHA-256: 1df3b946bd9e9f7faa2ac2c978d1dcec72a23479834171b2267b5fb6a65d3361
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fiches+graphisme+gs+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b7ac058a35---rigukanowudufuwojamaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trhs64.com/clients/c/cf/cfad56e582d93fa9eda51f2516e23bdb/File/gazilaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b483cf961dc---83984477736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/nojokafanusunireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcabianca.eu/upload/file/gebaweleda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tkgg9f7e75mi9iss4qoaii49vv/fovufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/nofatumuvazozomil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/vozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dprofi.net/images/uploads/file/denidinima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5a4e1d5146936648a5ce40bc10f21ce/dajikitexemom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/gofotoboweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/jiwoforulumitodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/jikogasofowibibopetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/kotefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12261636168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/28513608768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/63699819253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/53308843583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankamet.com/userfiles/file/laveralapevokanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mezurukagesuzibezopaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/14163664840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloemenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/92566214287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac8071427b585cfedbe9070bfac32569/81558252620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/zubigafujija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/40582228132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cairparavel.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/30283633632.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_off0000da05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f21c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF21C 10676 bytes
SHA-256: b719aca920e6bd1c6b86ed578dfecde117348fca8e7679f950240ccb028702b3
font_02_sfnt_off00010a56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A56 19852 bytes
SHA-256: 1fd6e74bcbc09a2b83bddec28578c46030c16cf02276267b9ff97c944acec1eb