Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3004b171ca4a297b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 00:46:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e5338088111c3a22ed53be87d2fb746b SHA-1: b0dddbed7fcb7b793c19568ac98e00834cd3fb49 SHA-256: 3004b171ca4a297b2804f00d7ba558fe1cfb881fe57407a46af6d19e61c8a1af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, 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 URLs and the PDF structure align with common techniques for delivering second-stage payloads or redirecting to phishing sites.

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+1+road+riot
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/54725348606.pdf
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/15838537140.pdf
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/regedonusajegovofo.pdf
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/94622834239.pdf
    • https://limberhurstgallery.com/imageuploads/file/78726227084.pdf
    • https://vendax.ro/files/file/69784033849.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/924c9a473960f44377a35cc1699b7ef9/kavekutupebos.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/todaxosofilugeguwaw.pdf
    • https://konyaalotaksi.com/userfiles/file/87660418237.pdf
    • http://anais.terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/72796085792.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbjvweekof5d.xn--p1ai/files/files/98432993787.pdf
    • http://joltiy.ru/uploads/files/31131078929.pdf
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b337605b2c515b26a3a595f3d8229e5f/labanixojiwitupuworeril.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/dazanojizeweruxij.pdf
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/98650085136.pdf
    • https://jvlegacyhomerepairsmd.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/97976612556.pdf
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/zedirazogitusek.pdf
    • http://gardena.crazyrockinsushi.com/uploads/files/vuregujirapomofubi.pdf
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29020539105.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135027f885dd---tulovuwivikibaja.pdf
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/89613236250.pdf
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210909054741.pdf
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/74847068948.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d8cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CF 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e5.bin
ab0819b59b7009f6e42f9eee2e5ae02d09679f74f48d3e40bca2ca81c417690d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E5 9928 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000106ed.bin
e167e05d14824af97f364d6b09e7d2917d9af1bcd845ef8bc37e9b4b6b093ea9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106ED 17360 bytes