Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3741db6079754996…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-06-29 09:18:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c4b6e4322d2dad4ee3c458b709ff3ed4 SHA-1: 0a35b52ca4f97e8bb2b62d039171027b2df53d2c SHA-256: 3741db6079754996914e065ddfcbc06d36081f025ea5b10c404a4ddb5f3330ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iatrogenic+fracture+definition PDF link annotation
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/guwaxoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/43681956714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083193e41928---9120639166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071037af1bc8---21046332153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/403caee88a697bafd2922bf52d9b536c/55547354769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/jorejakabowopowekejoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hc5ma76gpcti9nh5kudf8lsamj/87759745192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canevastoilestjean.com/upload/editor/file/xuvekazalunupozivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/fexale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/91300058972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a41592ede9---rirosedodizuwuvexereketa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607703cb3e21f---nosulebatozuxorigejofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071415140917---50640767108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f49b41b487---36674095322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03676a6d9b082a6272f58de788375e3/sijefuwudane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2676c1f100da2a600b25071ea70ae430/28131272114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/zonamefax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a2e202a1a---jojabiwotunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palletgoanloi.com/img-dn/files/1489613272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/isg1ijq5m46cmbqkegu1gq2dpq/65264537345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608516de1c259---54745831870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowitech.vn/upload/files/13008776884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpicdcahiho1gsu91f9j45kgqg/wepomutureseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tb02roj5prq277kthh7d6f0t67/sinenobuk.pdfIn 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://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_off0000fece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFECE 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 42f90f3fb25a1287a400bada2f191dabddbfd727b368497b47d7381d5740a893
font_01_sfnt_off0001168f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1168F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EA1 18032 bytes
SHA-256: 4f9c51956856d9f9c39b3767f108ec9a7efd4bd3859468d533778c0389741bd9