Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3189f62e1589cf5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-06-14 14:01:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c72f62069ea1aa5045d3bc5f9b4fd766 SHA-1: 2ed10de3f45da231f1a2887a8bd5b133b69edeb7 SHA-256: 3189f62e1589cf5e7449df0c36c1afe1c9d0dd95ebaf393d7421e5200cec6938
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that may be part of a lure, and the presence of embedded URLs further supports the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tere+bin+ab+lenge+ek+bhi+dam PDF link annotation
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f6eb08e6a---pulugukitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076a63c70f3b---gasogedudafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f3bc2d03e94cbb96d2acab91377cc91/xowevugibomikomakoxeboket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41d45132a3f583d6a0f0388df4913cfd/83223399455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/velofipagodoremulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5414f329f9---7923763220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nj0ebpja23464dbcbb5saq5d72/lugogelokixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a864174c06d---pugigufefoloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/74189732539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021050713364954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/65168353398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cb9b958368fdadd5331c949b83e03a4/87831842718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c043682a801---wagelilezobatutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57292679249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/tovopeponugituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903728131c4---48133878175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af97b76194---80381306706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD4 4812 bytes
SHA-256: cf1c1b4beea800ad874590ce3ca20c14cc07afaa9571ba7fe58f90ee9466d40f
font_01_sfnt_off0000edde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDE 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 4a4839218fd3eb1146bdba2b6526dd13f0d8a094f319493f9daefe2de2a65439
font_02_sfnt_off0001131c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333