Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3771764914280bac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:12:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2bcd9e4ae2750ad604f2c8e128aa5a02 SHA-1: b098adf337aa7aa4543ef77918ab1072e1cdd611 SHA-256: 3771764914280bac6558514d9f830fa91870b3ad5f574e1cd2b59e022a441afd
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier also assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites, consistent with phishing or SEO poisoning tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/56825860861.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/22982476773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/bobed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/23753688026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermocomfort.ca/userfiles/file/92743531134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/zimosojefajalakozewef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taaltoetsvo.nl/userfiles/file/reropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuzupitomarobisetivemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614674e31bc16---retolufilonefuzisexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relekujavuguzimide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc4e44b7c1ab297f7fa6debfd0f09f97/rifanixaxunidawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210912052339163391112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/nojexobuserojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/89613727680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midospa.com/upload/files/73531638239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://factorysales.com/userfiles/files/21413979568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe214c1a7ee4dbcd08bdff557a5550e/55292413297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202109191305038736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614096bdb03f2---94792851333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zijeseregexasetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konstruktor33.ru/app/webroot/files/files/nevewaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwstc.in/userfiles/file/73712377137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vudosonik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=what+apps+can+you+get+on+android+tvPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c35a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC35A 16368 bytes
SHA-256: 2b23ee682b39a1f322b1d6531adf282e49e46634ce2f3308ca80b88014be5e66
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED73 11020 bytes
SHA-256: eda7403bc0f804addbcadad52eb76ef886411c01e4c2132b3118a93657418845
font_02_sfnt_off000106eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1