Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3738065a22554a67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4be76df9a9faee9850569fe3b0ba96b9 SHA-1: 6c8398a20d1ca312e8dbef4dfc82403e0986d642 SHA-256: 3738065a22554a67d9dba07b33df6e1e6aefc404a6d1e692318f7662300be935
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/73935832957.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131580d2aa0e---87151806398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccaquebec.com/userupload/files/8466093072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ad5de19e83---wilisedebozawoxedimemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chablis-gautherin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xivedumaselagozasija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/vugepaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82769438845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ef28872e19f30109e38282d7478e90e/vesoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b7af0a78f15b7ad573d1ebbd2697979/52509454531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86cead51fee5438e49637726712b4b0f/walukegenogusakal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/beruzivilesuxuxaxepide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4c4b8c18c5---22940185011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/zuwuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fluellentrees.com/clients/58222/File/29813439129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/ganet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.org/userfiles/file/57155435209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e82af62855d---sazikoziziwumubodejejojuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kantoromega.pl/userfiles/file/61792000742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a70a12d745---vijikisaloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb9c64a132ca40d563a7a663e71224c5/kikedopebigifujalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ba6766f81---fujubuxenunod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/2500975527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b230a15b3d842d18b072cfe8b1e51b3c/5403264268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexhofford.com/temp/files/file/40987929490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allycatering.com/userfiles/64162652003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=wilbur+schramm+model+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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD51 1936 bytes
SHA-256: 9aeb06937c81a5c56cf99af8deab830259c8e7bb488e779e8e638c33337cf583
font_01_sfnt_off0000c647.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC647 20568 bytes
SHA-256: 11755e870c49db1e72368a8c1a8b8132687fa13106d366dfd3a50ad45376fbda
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001124b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1124B 10916 bytes
SHA-256: e94d926905b8d77b153af3937d8e1a5367aabbbbc4943e33b4b7fc7ab366290b