Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3040294d64af20aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:59:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 7e747d54eac71ad271d3bf69d3e44445 SHA-1: e3459098b2f443f37065e4f50d9ed3d1b4e77cb4 SHA-256: 3040294d64af20aa3f599ef1683f5e6d0a56f89ffa6702dfd0bcffba5b2cbdb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external URLs suggest an attempt to exploit users via malicious links, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+relaxation PDF link annotation
    • https://birudongker.com/contents//files/mofugibawinavofigazor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767ed4065dd---pasuziberupetonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/529b7190bb480aa16c6ad803afc22087/11030869462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feldbach-tourismus.at/files/71215016733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847bed739db---lajexewalamabaguxijemugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609833b760ee3---mewuxegurexowukevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/takab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambaohiem24h.com/upload/files/kofijatetidesubukafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/5396906687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menuiserie-sainte-anne.fr/userfiles/file/ragejaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/3358869052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallsplat.se/file/7615751171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bke2gb6v8p7523kef4an5hun7/83243115435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a68ef3e5af4---peregelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/680a17f6c6c0414554439f5db6d02087/23061527229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/zuduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49lku2jdc4a4637qulf28mvm04/fufiloxavobusiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ec4b8f27b45efcdab5ede97ff665994/85254360740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/73882287920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160723991711bf---67494602226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/xagujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/24323681745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079dc0e7a002---zoderiropinuvidubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/20993728257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://12shio5.com/contents//files/70192830240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/goxezipuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j6jm52sek5k30fn1u17cuqqms2/51825439746.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_off0000f7ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11004 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 2de3ff021a6c279e6b6893294db4e95e1e669be2ab17ef6438a354d537800156
font_02_sfnt_off0001282a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1282A 17180 bytes
SHA-256: b641f50ce6c55ed5ad7d6363c103f70a442ae9bc5c8667509c23131ae7c5396c