Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3852b2c6dea99aae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:12:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f1be9099f38a6a9bbb5a196f5927ca39 SHA-1: 05f32e669dc0467ea16d4e5982d84a9874a7878d SHA-256: 3852b2c6dea99aae1cbaaf6a9464f62c96783c1620c68d3ae97822c50b51e8de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware. The presence of external URI indicators and link farm patterns strongly suggests a malicious document designed to lure users to compromised or malicious web content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=reservation+against+cancellation PDF link annotation
    • http://urgentcarepb.net/userfiles/file/konefolaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netpage.info/userfiles/file/mamadal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01654bf186e9d8c831a8ccf1cad7b9b0/86393947928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/walefifibafovanekuvakajad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23bd24cfc3---27580659334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f872b3c664e8384213a9c0ff82f97548/5542041890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bamuzunogorodanofesibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmaga.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/girunenutoxoxisigafogadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085116ec05ef---33225805031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22a67980a8---61076713965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/zubagefosajelez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/29797765864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608763899291d---livenizijodukotujexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2qph0a7i6s5rofv35siddfhnu/kisakujapexivuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d94271c42e373fb0216d0cee2d21fd71/dowevijufudakeremoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/tikuzaviburagawuridat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3f690349d---21107245075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smn68.com/clients/75339/File/77826299263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70158135720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f407463f4---55989150503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5112c40c94---moxoletubota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/2933513702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19219e25efe8557e09ca314b897d7c5/2613173759.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_off00011249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11249 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 8e1a54a99ac9b0a6c9f5eea0ddc45e48e4ffa21c8a3ba5ced971006e864e8ea9
font_01_sfnt_off00012a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001427b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1427B 17548 bytes
SHA-256: 6e176dc9e2d0f596d54a9837a9d89b2d5b6b213746d285bc911ade403751038e