Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3040c7c4e97e7c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3f8c1d1b3245fe4f94fdbd5a10d36972 SHA-1: 34b9ddfdf2979ae93ea0d16c948e80f9c23912ff SHA-256: 3040c7c4e97e7c90663cdae9c98e55b273ed4b43ff6921d726afb3db7cce14c1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL analysis is sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+back+into+a+human+from+a+vampire+in+skyrim PDF link annotation
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/guvivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8887b880e3---9857202259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/fonurodojifetasovigomokiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topas.lt/userfiles/file/64674004070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55f7a82b94---60930439361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/zebekijelolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dcce725a96855bf25f4c7b4e0e9a0cd6/zanalatudiwujemit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bdf3f0672---powufenek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/natosazugufodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/151dfc5adae7371d4de5070c109cdf8a/95566988968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/lumejutinoxamusose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4613ccbfc---4375775885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimar.ua/userfiles/files/guwezajijisoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/viduwomixudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ccf363f21---regegizudatorokijijiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystalnymph.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e39d337819e633eaa3d9d5a94e14cfd0/6878186691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc28e2b4e9114fbce13f6a9bad71706e/39471988983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/90981397196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/linubovilovazaralitozir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b974bab126a---24082003808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mnaeedqml5chi49pm70dbun06m/65121815175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/49773245593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoilersmensgolfclub.com/clients/865201/File/44077602320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d6d3628905---85231709716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c79541e7af---71704896348.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_off00011eda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EDA 11288 bytes
SHA-256: c4ee467c1f3bca00abcf9ee269405fcefb795ca242eca8525505b8862b36ba81
font_01_sfnt_off0001390d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1390D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001511f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1511F 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 5b3607e5cb9571ef1393f373ab884ae400713006e55105cdde117f05aff04092