Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3388ee98da6421c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 23:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c1725311a59baa92e3ce801992a157e9 SHA-1: b796bbff9ace0ee18e8bf9d10058558ab763fdee SHA-256: 3388ee98da6421c11f3a8c23213c68c1299eac9210b779f3ed1f7733f4e80fff
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=25+free+followers+on+instagram
    • http://wangguanhardware.com/userfiles/file/rilejeje.pdf
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/37284986086.pdf
    • https://omprintandpack.com/userfiles/file/kugawavoguzobomej.pdf
    • http://margheritango.it/userfiles/file/wilow.pdf
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zudopoxoninonesiwotepafo.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f0a19f319---50658507555.pdf
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/fakorifamapijip.pdf
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdc1b1998022067f0f6b8749e09ce1b3/nafobowizexenevoli.pdf
    • http://shop-cartuning.pl/userfiles/file/lukagiw.pdf
    • http://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/zanidupitizodovozoreten.pdf
    • https://gestcargo.com/uploadfiles/file/balurixesepolajazap.pdf
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/bovalukajixelogozovemiduj.pdf
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/galavolaroxovobi.pdf
    • http://bjdfszwy.com/filespath/files/20210907222200.pdf
    • http://hakasasi.id/userfiles/file/gexajopok.pdf
    • https://suprastoc.ro/userfiles/file/sirunitusegupe.pdf
    • http://copy-office.it/userfiles/file/92976726640.pdf
    • http://officinedesign.it/userfiles/files/86306186424.pdf
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3697a20f056d9fca40d209db52fcc56c/67688150278.pdf
    • https://foodphotoshop.com/userfiles/files/78537366738.pdf
    • http://gzperson.com/uploadfile/files/ruzarane.pdf
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329b8a0c38c---rivejo.pdf
    • http://ahknchem.com/upload/files/fufevowumuxexowipenaba.pdf
    • https://s-h.cc/uploads/files/202109251149404717.pdf
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/12833623003.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_off0000b46d.bin
63fb61aa6f687216f1c75ee363c239bd9d601a721d35f36a8dcee74c3d5cb78e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB46D 10800 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd6d.bin
2fa2827e6e68899f2d8d1fc9b6f51898e7fc5cde314235d699834efa24689b5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD6D 15944 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f59c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59C 16792 bytes