Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3281646d0a87cb77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 00:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3465dd11e4a9a70ee67555b8074a7129 SHA-1: b0452e814bda6e166d27651753e4922ec8b6606d SHA-256: 3281646d0a87cb77b745ac35f1e81cdd60c99305747a8def9712e473265deafc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing and scam lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lada+granta+2020+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/27193648723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrogears.com/survey/userfiles/files/nofaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ne7em7s7lpmm1q2oqpka0dce76/66340299652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qqsbg.net/uploads/file/vivivuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/zogevarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/kikugigimagoligijomekoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/bugaxikojirovapufokuvev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.ua/design/pic/file/22568092509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szzxwx.com/Upload/Upload/file/20216292027287051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hp703tl4kpf26eeg9mj7hbm6gf/puzapiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/18368234590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e94e2afed8---62524578231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transinfosoft.com/userfiles/file/77869735657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/32271657490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salwex.hu/file/9467178005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rulejenimewomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac02fb5d3f5---88581502649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.serwkom.pl/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nudupifana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ea651a6aa---15737225692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aps-mes.com/files/file/rufixifevumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/nunosujof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5i6ovi5s8l0d9n7frj022a0pra/fagitilinezepafanezipaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/pisejonetitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e10ee1b484b---rumusula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11454707591.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_off0000ce32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE644 19780 bytes
SHA-256: 3ad4825ddaf696e1d092ec330de33508a95aed99493a8e1af4aee772ac493eef
font_02_sfnt_off000119e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119E3 10380 bytes
SHA-256: a1b3c85c9fd34772da8d40b96d1b049d188f528e0376b2867e5ab3cb1468c7d7