Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3487583f23f81468…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:53:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8a09f37e27af3f39ed7b0968c9de8aaa SHA-1: be58b130fbdbebe61f11a9910588ab17b6034843 SHA-256: 3487583f23f814682d744ade7085094bebcaae52ad258b030cbf9db1969ed53b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the presence of external URLs suggest potential for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+train+to+busan+online PDF link annotation
    • http://we-women.de/default/files/uploads/file/74167238780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoabuterol.com/upload/files/50395580200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144eb18515b6---29936984963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guvew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35f5e1d6ded2966acd8a58b7c69d2ec/pawifepakurej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbkbafwdti1ahihccrg.xn--p1ai/pict/file/lelazujapipitupexozato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/5732767702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafegreenwichvillage.com/uploads/files/gupafajibako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonebreaker.at/59257212399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wawemegimajomigaxegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e5b16209e2---8059490040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bac57dbd6b---82242070174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161471a3458c6c---wufuzuxebakupiriboregefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vo23.ru/upload/file/72063959472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c96942c5f2---7052522260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chi-kara.net/userfiles/file/zanajefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihanoi.net/uploads/files/92816233091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/45952609806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/31724115136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/mumidikofadejozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rt9.rspo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54553353754.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_off0000d5f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0F 10560 bytes
SHA-256: b13ce340f9f524c5b906d9eaa5007d87abe8881e4b91c13876c4f19e3f20384f
font_02_sfnt_off0001061c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1061C 18204 bytes
SHA-256: e11c4a87e7534d9fafbc1fbf07fcb674750668612e5a3aa32f8273e7fee4491e