Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3880078229478ec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:48:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 782e60ae62a019176c4c38d373558c61 SHA-1: 68c51cb12d2b2ede647472c638547d5cd5c6b440 SHA-256: 3880078229478ec2f267a2690396ce201810504be60eb0f03818ec129c8372dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9904

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=metatropi+apo+doc+se+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfce74f924---92839345965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-design.de/userfiles/file/vapude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulsantour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_D9D765228E06E35A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn85kputljm6nqikb1a9tgndt0/lanuzivibubasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f519a5ba94---76637697937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610832da0ede0---62264459988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kuvojarag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/44591047418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ffc321856de---27417775649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160979bc1e4587---25176120527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096893d91e21---woredakufasakexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b8cf327528aacbb7ab131dd409e60e9/xorizamavexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/26136319474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liga-stf.ru/i/upload/files/ziwosagabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humicdp.com/uploads/2021-07-17/images/files/14269298042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25140820d0c1c87e24cbaf02bba7d39a/tegefetibosunesafemefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promobryansk.ru/userfiles/files/nikeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7b56ebf97---gorobaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f9cabfae3---morafopopokowiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47ba610510ebe6788e2cc67857cb2cb5/puzatefasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/11465332662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51bb8adec9c5de573594bf8501b52152/gerakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dean-cpa.com/files/adminpic/file/vemojepobawedet.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F4 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 0ac269a07c8842bf8cb2acdd3e861c19fa2911a3b50ddff30dc6b7b984661ae8
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD0 18052 bytes
SHA-256: 55de0c5fffea615939af13d869f38668caacdda06bba06a3dd25739e3d30e697
font_02_sfnt_off00010be4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE4 1664 bytes
SHA-256: c737c1571b827a9af515084efd4d135d2c05ce8763284746c5506df3322eddb3
font_03_sfnt_off000113cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off00012be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BE1 23684 bytes
SHA-256: dd0d89de4f12c06cd0bf8a4e823e798a85189153a908495e07fcdbfde3df31ab