Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3654516da0014aa9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:07:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 4db0f5c58b4b0fda419e7a6a6a91bd69 SHA-1: 333dccc7c062cfb5953940ede1b59b03d2ea1d99 SHA-256: 3654516da0014aa97498db38435e1940820da23fb553ae49a7fef967b0ec3222
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'SE_QR_LURE' also suggests the document may instruct users to scan a QR code, further supporting a social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comandos+autocad+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begepapoposonije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/20868027459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c458140afa---58622114298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/48828705043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/52174122665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ba32b337b803b17699254d80cb866f9/fabujuxorizug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/42107480557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxzyjy.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vasote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4073721864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokelutaroxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52624420535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/zodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210914060328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/vewuvubodizidawowexaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.omt.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zukidupagugadijitora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/letojejavufademagexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://combatkuntao.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobabales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guowangcable.com/d/files/tasedas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piqiso.ru/userfiles/file/75037850192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/7158860878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimura-shihoshoshi.com/userfiles/file/98176087136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aaljvjrt6c7qcsvpd3ffjt4n9/6835581070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dananeye.com/uploads/files/202109042242466002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/44829127747.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_off0000e27f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA91 18016 bytes
SHA-256: 5e900ae98380c164186aab26b0d5afc22aa501988c06bee6960c9f6199805c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0001294f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1294F 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 62b737bad3dd262b6f88fd46c4b83009c9f97d36f14c8799503d12cf6aa472fe