Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3697932a3681c522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1a7a3baf791404744ceb8a5d59f964b1 SHA-1: 6978262a86726b3e1bdebac15753be84ce89bf80 SHA-256: 3697932a3681c52281443d8c748a65497494af71a73b739e1b30dfbafc4e72cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to various PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and embedded URLs suggest a lure to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/wagemiwubapojosazoguf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://factorycontrolprojects.com/userfiles/file/26779332518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb28dddd68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/210905234823367018n8o80d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-uklid.com/files/file/fiwaxajexunuleva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/ludusopafunos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/tojosikiwefukonatitubure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/90609304695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/dasiwozenababesexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/vowurulonajibaxunadegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getvisa.ru/images/File/miwudedadizabekujetup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thephinhmienbac.com/upload/files/ninujarapuxefubokajelaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328fbe34285---98907745673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.globalnautique.nl/upload/files/mizobuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jogamiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15113374429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vepisosiruboxijofitimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/73426861901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/32726145651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e3edu.vn/public/ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.phppublic/uploadsfiles/77189491957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garnizone.com/userfiles/file/gereloxejisela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd53c77658393d579cbbf9f25a2cb3b9/zomuboferaxopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/61409947253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bafiti.com/sklep/userfiles/file/78142151716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/migewunufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piphoto.tw/uploads/files/202109042000346147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf30f18b6e81185ad9ef860bd401dfa5/wunisexuwabafijewazixaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=odt+to+pdf+androidPDF 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_off0000b368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB7F 10172 bytes
SHA-256: 1d8fb5f172c75572685c76d58671cc926b432b71527ff721da9fe264af52df12
font_02_sfnt_off0000e254.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE254 16056 bytes
SHA-256: 4904e6e78728f06f8e5b58e60ef3596099325c0c7ebd9164867321ffaa578930