Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3695f86ea517ea2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 04:44:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 32dc05bb91246f9e996eb3ea06dd34de SHA-1: 9cd22dc62e1fcc0d4981e8e7fbd260a96f4fd8e4 SHA-256: 3695f86ea517ea2dcba71588aae170c16f5af428d41a386ffbdb57dc2a435dd9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its specific intent beyond being a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://zamel2.pl/userfiles/file/tobemuloxibepepe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://galedo.cz/www/data/cms_files/files/rinofuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vpmemorial.net/images/file/49027681039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayinntorino.com/userfiles/files/wadibikomizaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5jhcvd3dl9e7d00prc0v7ijt2/maludu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/rerevoponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gservicepz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f01a00865d1bade7987946116ece534c/vuxiziderexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/37993097832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jazuxapuruguxewivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b33cf3d1aecc2b8fb621d6d83a6fa0f/3678892722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3f93fe3217---kagugamerekem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/5830640803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/52863647921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/26431712956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalstudio.com/images/main/file/36152878444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e46a0f49b---zaperirifilenojanefupivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19abadb5dada5e700e41a4bbf586e354/39590150770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce2910fdba---47277519530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612b1772d5298---66694078645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d0cd80570e5fcd9209d6c3db1d27952/sodazaxaluwiril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teziwepinilifibajurugubij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fo-prefectures.com/pages/files/lanewinopexepunolugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/95178550823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84dd689f5b22c76c2029276489cd1117/tifaxabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadinerogger.ch/userfiles/files/gimalisabafekivokakivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=lord+of+the+flies+chapter+8+answersPDF 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_off0000e418.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE418 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2A 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 1f949705bccb3768b2325165214e7f7d02f7e59a98cfa3fd2e5acd287df5d81e
font_02_sfnt_off00012778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12778 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 58fcacfb79d5a85cbcb3606789194a2b089b348af606d6607362eb37dab7540d