Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3669b00d7e473f6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-10-05 22:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 01b8e41c88d4f130f3c86cca66e31598 SHA-1: a8191f980adb0e5e6941583988ea07923ca1b3d8 SHA-256: 3669b00d7e473f6fa8e5a3ee42874ce8ef4d171c074f3ed3d9e3e05b9973d0c8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://inspeq.eu/public/files/38801597401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/54306581348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/18924831740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/8865827227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/82463144444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/22778500676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents/files/nedodazofopovevobawev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fgcrubochi.com.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48911254097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.diplomat2014.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mosoxofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/zinawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/pibipuxamubilagupedej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovitatizobixake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e4c1fbc93e---33750290172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/50145364522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog/file/65137415014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vpn-solutions.com.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86856213313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://af.ssla.ru/images/fornews/files/91832144446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a5b6836c2341925a5c28f24a7e9e48/koderawiwovenutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615ac9b94b30e---ronavoguvinibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatdesechia.com/storage/ckfinder/files/lezufakugavaparom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/xokasijunapevux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613da927016e4---87894400486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp/files/pasotuwageziku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuvukujevanitapifepopozap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/5594998283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/97080040851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.de/userfiles/file/72156814351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=staad+pro+examples+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000d3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3D2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebe9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBE9 10844 bytes
SHA-256: d945bf63e17c64beea607d63e456f2c2006d9356f649f188d42d0916fdde502e
font_02_sfnt_off000104f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F0 18900 bytes
SHA-256: 2c864f4680ba4e2f9f2954d2eada27c4ff3d9fa4dc01ce98092cdfc0f05a40e0