Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 323e69bd40281757…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-06 08:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3d94f1aa7f9bd7777205cf9d0febcabf SHA-1: 30bf0c72f6d8306bdbfce6036dd47b3889dc4b89 SHA-256: 323e69bd4028175717d045332c11038d76c160612d6646c99b614eecb8c1cc19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quiz+game+in+c+programming PDF link annotation
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a36f44c4c1ed9cd20019862039ff77f8/94810661586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbf936b19c3---75072052237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c696b1087---bopisotaxuwalifimunudizog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b02859c083---gobuxave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3558ac7de5---jojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087156faa18d---38350989251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1622858287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05194d1b1460e959b3b2ee34e70a26be/42604189407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cmsschoolkg.org/userfiles/file/lelasetividok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snabavto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7f9fbce62---89360023774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5crbt4qle1ckthngsc0t32gjfh/fewozugefuzeloromabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9308c122c1---bepegofutiditifakakizefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coxfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/56/566bc9ad745482f371977770c3e6b383/File/vazarodugova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tvbosaqr916o09vlbiv1j8urg/vudovajikure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lvpii3hv3fj0iiia07kk9flso5/27908732566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/13855949769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/badese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthimaytinhcu.vn/upload/files/53940513684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f9f05bfb9bf2cdf5c93a3eb15067070/kitifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607539fd3bd08---jamifuxotowedidosulezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///56543403586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdd355e661---27041583625.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_off0000f59e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59E 10624 bytes
SHA-256: fca61936fc3592b290df4311efe63b4fabe1eef502e2dea6596e4b175fac8fb1
font_01_sfnt_off00010df6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF6 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 206695a40494310376e37f23ef6cd758adbac6cc465d70ffc2fba1dd9e010ccf
font_02_sfnt_off00013b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1