Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 364ab27cf19957f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:55:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb127a164d729187c4f7138e8a2ddf0e SHA-1: 30aaf51c506ba387b04464955a8a378fda0a2298 SHA-256: 364ab27cf19957f378af0ff7ddf847ea4d0a1b2fe67ef332de1c595344d75f17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure suggest it's designed to exploit users via web redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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 https://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=idioms+book+pdf+download
    • http://webinaris.net/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/47613636262.pdf
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/pawupanogube.pdf
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dddc667ba---1682951969.pdf
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/wovat.pdf
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144039fc2eae---galifisijewazorujupedav.pdf
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51988012347.pdf
    • https://classconnbio.com/img-jacson/files/31470308374.pdf
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/81279490158.pdf
    • http://wych123.com/upload/files/1167861529.pdf
    • http://cissi.it/userfiles/files/81810212439.pdf
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/luwogazarekemud.pdf
    • https://muahohangnhat.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/53144355306.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ac1be44533cbbb3f934cdd4a6613328/47902030094.pdf
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20024219757.pdf
    • https://iword.de/userfiles/file/87929594041.pdf
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/genotujadewivaxevuxegobes.pdf
    • http://shqinze.net/admin/upimg/file///8626505034.pdf
    • https://il-gusto.com/images/file/70106435345.pdf
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202109180102159366.pdf
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/wojisomijurorijo.pdf
    • https://gkatsov.com/userfiles/file/36571257451.pdf
    • https://drivetripper.com/userfiles2020/files/77628111047.pdf
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/lawaberik.pdf
    • http://eia-edu.com/userfiles/file/17394701289.pdf
    • http://vectorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/40181249643.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d880.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD880 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f092.bin
7dbd5fbf377a9cfe0bf2ddb0f834e4746a456d72a5f0d3fbb261109c22146cea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF092 18184 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc8.bin
a9f1fb999832cf5a5057c3caf9f4183c48671e9e222aa30ae0af751e06e6ed6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC8 10600 bytes