Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3795be50b211fb94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-08-20 13:11:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 00ae1d59c9293996eb1194bba1ea1f97 SHA-1: ab8f04dcbedfd6ff85c775aa0020f759c32e8581 SHA-256: 3795be50b211fb9454618733b885d122ecf694d45fec54ad9bfe345d9f361d3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://agro-partner.com/Image/files/lanejajemazurowapapoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210601182842115873575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/xemexutisipezuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f503a6e8e1---golesorovitakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/vavufakupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artstudiodesign.it/userfiles/files/kimojawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakamurasangyou.jp/app/webroot/uploads/files/54703514348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhthuan.vn/upload/files/wibagotukixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipekyolumedya.com/resim_galeri/file/jidomezulok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40b7481ffa6c316a8ef12cf866ec7054/31456776475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/2021881743526850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/24103597823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h1pudt9qq57cnueu5jtpj1q7r6/xotipiwiwexare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/83882467207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bcb0877495851a81d98f98d9ce0e865/zajujalejebinota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/75167906338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/gurivomekojokamamamawolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonestudio.pl/files/upload/file/dunojetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d4786dae4---96785773143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ae741ac23b028fa69d7338b6fed77c3/zowifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/fuxoxagabawidafirijexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5131d8c089a79d4243075dbdd409e22f/20656310570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozari-ua.com/files/file/melaxeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donghocasiochinhhang.net/uploads/userfiles/file/movavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-partner.com/Image/files/nalusupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=worksheets+for+kindergarten+number+tracingPDF 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_off0000d3ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBBE 16176 bytes
SHA-256: 533a8625a471e27185c20cc7c5d38a3656108fd4375bac5a7269b0af95844a72
font_02_sfnt_off000115b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115B4 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 5d437bbe4d98aca5e9b72f58d5fa2931202555d3f04983209223d00af15b6854