Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3763201b66daa720…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-08-02 05:41:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 947b84872ea0e892ea9cb32387860f1e SHA-1: 7201ac9d92f13d2228c37bf33e6b4a49d037d0f6 SHA-256: 3763201b66daa7202e16f3e7f503b883099ac6825d870dce9ceedd46c3d7cf71
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tema+1+ciencias+naturales+3+primaria+anaya PDF link annotation
    • http://standdominica.org/files/files/wuralazomoresurabubavim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/77339378872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99929923377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071efd5dec51---63927823163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b95ec7c3727---87478658578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/549a1fd61447862ea0c74d7fb72cc70f/bajifigonezidosegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ubil9l99jhc85mkfqb56ipu17/34670671509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iva-vietnam.com/userfiles/file/jisigejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8806c51ba1---43359278535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/33308102175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geya99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korakewepuwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782d1ebd39c---50799997033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f81823cd5a2---vewiretifese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjtii283ijmcb17o9gcdr1m8tk/moxawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuchscars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96401ff84e9e7ea9a948a0d58b658aca/fenaruraledakusoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe6bb6dac8b---wajinegatufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25u0qub37bcbca20f0rjl61ff4/54391958297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pazegoxodaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/70094180180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/xomigovatugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/disor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/60337753938.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_off0000e804.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE804 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001001b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001B 10816 bytes
SHA-256: d10169b694a72e8af095104a0c052c693f69729611881eb8e241c3044d82946a
font_02_sfnt_off00011923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11923 18828 bytes
SHA-256: 4f309e1664cb23b788940c658352acb4c35637e70bd21c149aec36c79408711c