Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3699458b34474480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:23:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 771522f7e8bd611e79eabde9ab487f8e SHA-1: 7fc79d61029276cc863ad400e2e511e982c31ffa SHA-256: 3699458b3447448064f76d6a7311118a8d5a8509d5006a2db1262ad8d174299f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior suggest it is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 https://avayemehr-carpet.ir/data/file/84745767758.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/40880048666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac70ed173c4---tosifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/642c31620b186ce65a5698bc73ac9a4b/wefejasivepurodasis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/65392900546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/sagulonirumesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99jv7ju7jhjse98vl8qvet4t2u/89739341516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aeb87efbf---17904178322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bge4l0o3m5tubsbsbgtfndr0bm/vugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eef2f42e32---sopelere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellfoto.cz/pictures/files/79151810318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608548cf4780e---wawiforoxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tebetirujitamovasuforulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf9400af386cb1d0f32a517291e544a/58649356774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0qumtcb9bqmvada4ijjn1b8l4/22030183746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070424e69fa7---paxuxasugexarume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cf-solutions.org/app/webroot/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/imgmedia/96906000506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/34579308957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c426c2104b---wetalim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083201bc0acc---xumemovipeguwowokefipar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5954eec778c4a0600134daa48cf3d0c7/49404854009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d97fgh7n2lgua0n78s9a3it6e/41466636519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3d0487dfa068ec8d5d17726e393305b/xaxepeburo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f2616644dab0bce766ac9965191e9f3/zadabixetojorama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f0033b044f9b5d0129df88fd8f390cd/wupaxisukegafaribu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p9esmm8liclkrrqo0j19sh91tt/44091207659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=would+be+synonymsPDF 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_off0000f131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF131 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 37944bc78a315e57ca48a7897b34b4c91c07f51eed58e42154447cca6766b9cd
font_01_sfnt_off0001086b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1086B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001207d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1207D 17140 bytes
SHA-256: d38a3bc2293af22ffb53e19697f269b5c0524c27dfc949bd98b31dfadd3a0f4b