Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3503f02ee1d1b08c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.1 KB Created: 2021-08-22 00:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: d4ba4dd33fbe04bf5dc431d9c312e25a SHA-1: 131227b5edd507263eed9d511c565195b1ace76c SHA-256: 3503f02ee1d1b08cc0b48dcec7f9ff08e396653adab8dbd929ebbe9c84e85fde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifezefinujisuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc2d99c8ce---derirawilelilorumijibepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a8e19e015---30603423772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/namokulojulidomegavozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/gunumiregepovozosowuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866253a22dc---sulitiwajubekisibiwipofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paliukenas.lt/i/File/simudixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608543daecdab---70350980899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wulf-sanitaer.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nmrdc0c5jh5elulaa8ajvg10m/52058782518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086901425d27---fosujoter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepokewave.com/uploads/files/45938025634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083332d0d3eb---tibututixiwuxatog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f645874ca---lajifuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/17909300553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuanhongkhang.com/upload/files/35497180064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/54246371296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/nimatujuganinetepamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/52087126948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deeringbayrealestate.com/userfiles/files/fotuvezabotugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741f136c9fa---27646075593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/1575716968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/6573712461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chefinhogourmet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c57d09129ad2a7f20767ecfb8b301108/rufudof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcd5f97b44---99646681749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=all+the+pieces+matter+the+inside+story+of+the+wirePDF 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_off000106c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106C2 11068 bytes
SHA-256: d46ff0135a30f7b8009025ab9bad5139a89431bb730aae6bdc7e64347598061f
font_01_sfnt_off00012071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12071 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013883.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13883 17440 bytes
SHA-256: de70457db37a20d10b91b31a576608e4538463b595ba61ebcfccf9708846d68f