Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3737a3fdd1b2c463…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-24 13:01:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5d8ce4821ccbf7b367d166617aa7d754 SHA-1: ccae473f75780cdc5cf4ff96fa04d55a4ee116ca SHA-256: 3737a3fdd1b2c46386fa048eab0fead5f3c40fe28681cbd50cfef175797e53fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links are likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+11+physical+education+lab+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftfol6d7evie2o7sei4ajvjot2/gagegililo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bochosushi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724a3d80786---masuvememirute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grafitpoint.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a37459fcef273b55ac738be16172d9ab/darofusigabemekewegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/25609337533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a5592e25f---kufodelumibevoxised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ee1a58a3e5---16359416155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/giwaxegetijowasuzere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092817c0d46b---17353824220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-kc.org/scauserfiles/files/litosixikoveper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071243a3e6f2---gevunitijixubadamajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cemshsqsmq6sq6r4be1564hd7h/kolusakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/nawusefaposumamafarowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd21e1978d2f5861205573ad2e6db015/82225602003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c41084cc---7885641767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/41192107069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d914.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD914 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 65f3f03d3695e1f6fca7da09794663dc4ff3e107e9c57831895e59ca943ec249
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA4 10744 bytes
SHA-256: dfa257163b15ca07056c7aa5820a2027051de355e8dd464485e00c7f1e3cd4c9
font_02_sfnt_off00011039.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11039 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3