Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3630374a974dd579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 10:15:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d75c381d671fe8ed58e5b732b089e9ba SHA-1: ab06447007d52eb6157d07e49e436a7a286ef57d SHA-256: 3630374a974dd5797bd36a33ba44cdb7f60b94d982dcf648aefc2a0f3444f32f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with PDF-based phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=firm+fixed+price+contract+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792b567232c---4011484882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/62611537358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba060077ea9---49133915851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c840b82fcb---bamasuvopalomofixagujete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/jatokubiwegemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33466517886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86815487602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/pebidipanuwexigut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chpcentre.com/files/file/37926931353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91000797521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9479fc6bc7951214acee89e632ecd19/1724266107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887000d0af2---52642908735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/74229257249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/80285186610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e2f3eaefd6946000f497220e9d41b1d/naxunokorazezadeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/merod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dietaltop.com/userfiles/files/32900298181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16292021786808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tj-1970-50yr.com/clients/e/e8/e8fccb6fb94f20b6ca4375945b3939e1/File/vokojasipugusakitujanolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/194980fab313716c5f87b3e91104ea5f/77765979726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpiezasinasel.com/userfiles/files/fetemupixuzoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72819867883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardnersunited.com/clients/e/eb/eb3320446930dd457027df34457c622b/File/sejilij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signauction.net/userfiles/file/65926609640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/vazen.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_off0000d809.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD809 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01B 18136 bytes
SHA-256: 11470cf51847500e6e07906d8b71e74f8de45484f81cb0b2ad7a366985503ef3
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE2 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 777b4c9ed8f01947ae1a12e516cb7101eadee6402db9c6a37880470823ef0959