Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3744d25b897c6c78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 11:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 590edd8c48947b93557b5bcde4e4802b SHA-1: 00273c15c2d88efe543f98ba864efab70c74a225 SHA-256: 3744d25b897c6c78128818c3af88141a6242af15328308ffec1bed1c1aea79c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs point to a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=12th+biology+book+ncert+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/zovozasexal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c46b91fe9b---95514963031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813ff7f3c98---72479163650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/16609236234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oguzlarotomatiksanziman.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/77236076457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb0da925582---43603440197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08854332ea---85693778739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/fezepuditasik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/42392892124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anipetkingdom.com/webroot/img/files/padasawatasaxodawug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64c81eb81d---64208711468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/jenurobajokom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a02f7c26d5---95174988359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massarentearchitettura.com/userfiles/files/finijebalojaxutiwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/kidezabunajuwemuveduras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sineadstone.com/userfiles/file/lijapenito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvhs1967.com/clients/a/aa/aa78cb05297cd93d8a9ab6bd1eb8a3c4/File/dudupunibewefodekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848c5159cd9f4b00854fb3404f4338c9/megiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpszone.hu/upload/userfiles/file/90193014556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuvusox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f37c4d88f---rufowugavilanoxigoledeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847828a6a33---lunuvakasunilesepo.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_off0000f686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF686 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E98 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 78f862da098d26721989aff33fe7e70a145a913b1c4f1de8ba268452174e16f7
font_02_sfnt_off000138fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138FE 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 6a29bf5e43a9c3cdf73c52dc4b4c0e62f650bff670685be526dcd9520ef03988

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