Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3135b622b5f45947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-08-13 20:07:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 63e9324519e429f7c4c00e0eee560acb SHA-1: 2b30e98cac1b62cbd86852bf2277a8b98349d69f SHA-256: 3135b622b5f459476b148eb55bc096e61ed2b5d7c2007c426d5ff8a383e1e61e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and embedded URLs further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://kraftyz.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1463214236.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97185519674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_students/files/11245369416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097012c4cdc3---83814519905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0357e43567bf3a0114be236aa11a95/30876145319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1599adea1---67832000431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/suweregukefexamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba4bc819d6b---norivigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/19088137072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoxulesovomajinuwetadibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehdamagnshuj18bjs4q8u5o1eb/60470852111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/fovafibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd3552f17a3bdb020998283eefa2bce/66195634774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghefoot.com/fckeditor_userfiles/file/gidifesexiwose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ade02b9e3---58664243525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/disuzuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/34196858823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5e23fca35f---49033224720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://criteriacambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2pvm9pm8a6b589nl13kg2p4jen/71333264364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/desifetulinonome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changecn.net/ckupload/files/fotopazururumoteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fbb040afa---13399575380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/76403835071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/22146249370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+plantillas+de+familias+revit+2019PDF 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_off0000f6aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ec1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC1 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc050426d48d5cb18f1f500f0f64f96f33d5629b43d8a57cb2cf087d3c4ae96
font_02_sfnt_off0001297a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297A 19160 bytes
SHA-256: 1aed05094706b42b3d6b7801f6eb611779fa2424c265c2f9b923911c1c5e5f8d