Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3809d57fdd54e409…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 03:29:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: afa049de6471230d37b7c30a832635b2 SHA-1: 1fcf67f562dd387c9a878707e828d35ada014717 SHA-256: 3809d57fdd54e409a36a470b8d26372fde18f77538d1faf84ff682185f0efb3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially malicious URLs.

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+search+engine+download PDF link annotation
    • http://drivingschool-brno.eu/files/1535418166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1raeo15507q536uj48e7enl83/loburuxegimazopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ac7c5ad53c---9685894899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcaed592afd---redileropitofokikame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160925cd087e04---4141175809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrva.com/uploads/files/fapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcbc3399.com/upload/files/salakevinutiledimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6b432e708---85391335049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/fusevowafimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/fujefil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptl31fth5qti009ofmf91v4smb/11382788802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/wezubarumadezonalomamus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d40ff800065---20145195222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/13629267379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sva-jeanroze.com/xmedia/file/89694629877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcd6c29e16---nomolaronoxulefizasegurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/65347028348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/lojefomux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eacf472da1---81317470643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51www.org/uploadfile/file/fd5feaae9930f0f472c6ef9cd31a0823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab889d68ddf---tirijipumezunusujeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/jitivamodizepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16241245365808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074623b25262---wasosiduwaxaje.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_off0000db13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB13 16460 bytes
SHA-256: 4ef3c9c037ef3162618fdbb79bf61f50f3c9cfd22bc08a9256541c0180ba1909
font_01_sfnt_off000105a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A3 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 87aef7355bee6e616817d2f5cd82fc56c63cd11163d8160e74fd0f04a846a7c4
font_02_sfnt_off00011e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1