Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3436645be3cd20dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:34:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d78f78f675f356c3fbcfdd4ea0e6aa28 SHA-1: b1a0ed059d065e4f45a900c4006eddbcad7b9d36 SHA-256: 3436645be3cd20dd9be89dcc9030c1d928c3f58378308423050359a7611783d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to lure users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/81552328718.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0d7e94e12a---rukaropimokilalesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7580472ee---33656984856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinskayarealty.ru/media/file/jujajorotedufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/bakaxawudozalugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9262895.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzijusazakopegutisil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210719_134718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ec880e861---poxatunofavot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmangroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53434408590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/benujav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64676071469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cfb32f250b5c0cfee4446ec72536be2/91807634926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvely-kup.cz/files/file/povigagalaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalinpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidegisovefifexawego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16126e70417ef9---vifolatuligixope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/41540046285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xililaxesozoratazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbf482d86a8---dikivajusaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33bb259373c6d7cb8489840f961f6d0b/kirilanasamutoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthodoxvaidikasanghom.org/userfiles/file/pupijum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba30b676f7e837beec6e4ceed6a7dc3/kitakupomagilosoxeporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah1.com/contents//files/39365574677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848e828aea5---68382505323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxiluzern.ch/khurasan/userfiles/files/nurisili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=only+ias+test+series+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b861.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB861 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d078.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD078 10508 bytes
SHA-256: b9310483b31eb743f3dee7d9c82d97c5d41ece1a1e1bb9ed3cf068980efdb036
font_02_sfnt_off0000e891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE891 15948 bytes
SHA-256: ca4ab87a4d7f2efb7a347c245d86a62d859f34f28573e6b5897d42e27727b29c