Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3372891aacb0f31a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:43:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0d2fa98b44b675e3976f02dd68c0ab4d SHA-1: bcaa57206608df5c669847bc5c5ecdf3705d1047 SHA-256: 3372891aacb0f31a04de7146c7fafa6dbc0c266ba8d565fe333947aca5fb3520
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bastonete+de+auer+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://artc-polymers.com/upload/images/files/39087595176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfo9m1bc2ulbftkk9se0hho4op/tarolotefimanijudulat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/6254205474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/14084043599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b62689981---fuzijoxijoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/22508613086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ae77b7334---96828691417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicareyou.com/userfiles/file/48149796376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd06828a7f---36788826014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/72057155097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merwepizza.com/upload/file/59365261390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafaela-motores.com/userfiles/file/poxuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00a46956fd6d1f26e0f2d7a868fa2234/watapisisegopagulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viettrungson.com/media//Files/mapela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/25247635473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/kiwovelosefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucokampen.com/media/files/68204123625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhahangbienhaitien.com/uploads/files/54770329306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d1ccc349d---guzomabomutewekafevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/19442518860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/21456648457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ampletrekking.com/userfiles/file/wotonojifozusinakixen.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_off0000d50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50C 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 8b41dcd72dcf596e214c1bc701e2df288e00d5376379ef80f384fcadd13bf4ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED1D 19336 bytes
SHA-256: ce1e5be513ec245cc04617abe97cd1bff96d0d298521161bdc13a6d97f4ea926
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1