Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3328abc38dff58ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-26 22:56:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8b0d120b2eb97efd6b06ac883e7954eb SHA-1: 6afc84bac3deb32a83caa364cc5334cc7c58695a SHA-256: 3328abc38dff58eeb745b2c2b7e0f6bd4e12e90272a93ff8b00788cb456a40b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=remove+camera+from+lock+screen+android
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_B2A7DCC48C00CF18.pdf
    • http://baovecongtruong.com/upload/files/99055960387.pdf
    • http://designbeginnings.com/upload/file/duzarezuguwuda.pdf
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/10285328331.pdf
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gureke.pdf
    • http://pololanna.com/user_img/files/punetadosadoja.pdf
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/80224831442.pdf
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/26908740356.pdf
    • http://gaziogluenerji.com/images_upload/files/89985339851.pdf
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/25617277754.pdf
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/sowuzuxifik.pdf
    • https://clove7.com/userfiles/file/19384921875.pdf
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/zipujij.pdf
    • http://cbcom.eu/ressource/site-image/files/wetitesizitajom.pdf
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/kokasit.pdf
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/saxijifogelokesifelujoxis.pdf
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0123cbf4a---6335131703.pdf
    • https://5of7edwardstreet.com/assets/media/files/zabojinilepozuf.pdf
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a918d8f471b2f196458ad38146b8cda/todotesaxuzukizog.pdf
    • http://csc0516.com/userfiles/file/20210907060123_h68v31.pdf
    • http://www.scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74233391576.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d7b10331e5---jofome.pdf
    • http://levakov132.ru/userfiles/file/jaruguji.pdf
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/67892982003.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2f8.bin
31df4828c1acdd99a485477d7a401fd40c370f6b7004452c6e9b058b4217308b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F8 10740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb9d.bin
1aaf7eabb3ca4619621784b3acfb1bedaae9b01282113543d570ab9aea9106ff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB9D 15724 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f3c2.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C2 16792 bytes