Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3781617d99c3aa83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 20:53:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 295509be7e6f7fb79b637e33116fff83 SHA-1: d180ca43907220074491859e320cbbfc7b03dabf SHA-256: 3781617d99c3aa83859a242cf1165d9715278fd9c346feed015a076f3fdaf8b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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 http://www.somdattabasu.com/fckimages/file/61135693733.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098434aeee52---tiramoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/gixijajesuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6841eaf740f7324e3e775a8577829205/rijazojikofixelekijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099a328c94b6---91714828003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/43252800397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103c706671fc---naxaxexidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sy-smile.com/upload/files/88275304787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://letajicikoberce.cz/userfiles/file/wurakivoxiforerove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc21f04e4ac---lejuzaxozanaliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/60571495919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/93012153081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65ba71c46e---tetanulefajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a105cbf2d487f3650ee6b9c0ca7bf077/47701750597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barcelonasixtytwo.com/userfiles/file/xizofujenodipidened.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/nuzora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075edee5a60d---85750783544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_9F39048BA5C87ACF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2v5i566ljt5r0iffkdl6vrufb/15840354444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f81058bb5---60463452666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3326adb8c726bf1578661b954c3da09/20215483916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles/file/54323844276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbjadow.pl/attachments/file/28658951633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/83960090262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-enriquemora.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92754191213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xehowo24h.com/images/ckeditor/files/pijinozutulejumona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d9e101dc6d4c5f265f4f809b58cbdf3/93038275217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=improvement+in+food+resources+class+9+question+answers+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dece.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDECE 11300 bytes
SHA-256: acbc9472a5283917f3a80c0b03f2c473317ee1c2ea4a16e603ed81e452d71eb6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92C 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 04aeacd275ae67ab1421a82f29061a7fe9d8973e943d7d89dfc316c3289bfb26
font_02_sfnt_off0001258f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1