Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3804eb10a822fe81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:58:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fa131fcfa4c06a7f46dedf102baa77de SHA-1: bc063d006313713589805e02932c15baf6abc46b SHA-256: 3804eb10a822fe817679daeed5b9372cdb703bccd06cc40c57437dc5dabe3658
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple external URIs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its direct content, but the presence of numerous links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mapamundi+politico+con+nombres+pdf
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-14/20210514014733355029.pdf
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/wugesomaxobuwased.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc38c9bd2fe---59351657308.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/komazugisuwonokafebavof.pdf
    • http://huonglonghotel.com/uploads/image/files/gajukiliminepo.pdf
    • http://accomplishtheimpossible.com/userfiles_ati/file/76119581018.pdf
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/37170334601.pdf
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/33667936159.pdf
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/40360940251.pdf
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/sezekilipezivar.pdf
    • https://northstarexecutivesearch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a824ad6f8571c4db2d4909e010d19a/59882561215.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ead2e43156---wagitivakexijoletenuk.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/832c7ce2b3048b5c49669167f3146853/63985737659.pdf
    • http://silarperu.com/UserFiles/file/95253938638.pdf
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golarolebadet.pdf
    • http://belst.by/upload/file/54426907678.pdf
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b3f515d1b---96261239750.pdf
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/podijojusapabafurojelen.pdf
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021071303202773499.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d9078e9fbb---54073870344.pdf
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/gadipipazoru.pdf
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609041514c812---60924035101.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0172be3f7dec3780d03c51bb87f8ab4/36495967413.pdf
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/9296821652.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db44.bin
26d9f64fd767f2e28dce3b17fc55e5aaeb894555cba2621dae4dbbdbc6cf52bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB44 11012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f498.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF498 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010caa.bin
14ebe43b4c313db61c6f6d948f9e269abe8bc1fbbee8eb4744e09d0434bdc882
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAA 20552 bytes