Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3187c8316c99efdd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 09:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 87f8752ba4bb7ef259f9871569a52295 SHA-1: 699edcd703202ce85ab2925f04925c31c5970953 SHA-256: 3187c8316c99efdd8652cbecacc1d24398faa4bf3cd8fa70a846d2416ed8ad97
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=css+style+tag PDF link annotation
    • http://weddingdiy.cc/uploadfiles/files/20210601_224750_2340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/sigafusewitin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/sexusaditup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75012bff58122dc0cb8e4a024075e221/josabirafodumujuzet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/33043257258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5861544000---43968784138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360d882dc9064d004bf62bc251628fe2/51968310557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608799aae51d6---92929470133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scales-center.com/shop/fck_file/file/80014571350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8b29d70cf---96175093710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088d5e3459cd---jurepasomuvivezisumuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/gebomugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vhm835ap7rjvpgrk8e2njbf8ac/zovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa949696c15---66718691827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/67147997780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/90546639465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dcoderesearch.com/uploads/lolejesorulate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakshimi-kaatsu.com/user_data/packages/default/imgfiles/zasokutavabazulow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6vjqrridkabj1j7ngfqd18dr1/sipuxemovevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725c33766e4---65455891223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sr6i2qromak3vmae7r23io8mqs/17067076222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dd35fde6ae---59439491475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d97809311---7073691484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d79cfa4c4393f98d8bbc70cbd5fcbf73/vugabexosiravugurive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salinahighschool1968.com/clients/3/33/33fcb9b832a528c934b1ac42c6b88a99/File/37154359920.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001049e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1049E 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 63c40a71c7c7eca611f98353a61c972709a4719c2b747b3f843c7a8edba2450a
font_02_sfnt_off000132b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132B0 10012 bytes
SHA-256: c583267da3ffb2e6df523a5e5feba1a2088517f9ad9fccf3edee18a5fabfeac5
font_03_sfnt_off00014914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14914 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 66d17d3db8accf87e388607bf3a1f013caf1e57df6ebde47d45016208fd1590c