Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3404467658a495d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1d22a0f82dad09b0da1b6bc1604ce72c SHA-1: cfce16f2a93dd29f90846eb339413f12b7f3f9c9 SHA-256: 3404467658a495d6e75f0e811c3a5c3fd15396097d0617c18f051b87964b96bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. 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 URLs are indicative of malicious redirection tactics.

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cursive+capital+writing+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/82839903572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/68973858856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/bujepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/jusitupidomumimanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/6355977371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/pafofagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/zarefusixaxabelitofilomer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9d8955eb96---2500653511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtprogetti.eu/userfiles/files/30015626684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerd-pollak.de/userfiles/file/riwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaskad-74.ru/images/uploads/parowipimitojaref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609702b95557a---bipifadanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrorevisionimonregalese.it/file/xurefopawaviwevevavab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f3f9fd9715---2045799727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e9290cb5421f43ba8f4e25aa7f406f7/zuzujega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0dfbe96a1---zilotapuvugosaxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowdertraviscoats.com/clients/7/74/74ec8bd2877f4db8d0b9f56bae0111c3/File/94891006703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koririwomafigelamozil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apronorte.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhqenfoj3l6avspiq9dvolfv0r/19123044911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.house-well.com/CKEdit/upload/files/69966271572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/26844260936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/sewufefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koutingchina.com/upload/files/24559773997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/susexomexuverubopafavumew.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_off0000d4f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4F5 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 2db5a709eb7e54a5f67d44bdb4bcb2e776c3265c41ce08392ef5a11c4f3e98c8
font_01_sfnt_off0001033f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1033F 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 6769e12014fa3622f48c15226d106054a1d476e4e91e78e3bef7958ef70c9e87
font_02_sfnt_off00011cf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1