Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3904565170a7c565…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:45:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cd70415f9a5345311372b8bc209113bc SHA-1: bdb85d84ed1afb018aadeefb08fb3f7e038cf71c SHA-256: 3904565170a7c565bbf1a4c90412caba31f1992b6df4c3784fbfe7fb1230b506
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely leveraging a spearphishing attachment vector. No scripts were extracted, but the structure indicates a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://2016montemayorreunion.com/clients/e/e5/e530e98a7ee505477716bae2fe71cdef/File/43038230388.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://promtong.com/promtong/temp/file/68693145654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832f5a662df---84382909886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da1d495c82---jofozig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb579604ad987de4bb2b5fe1fede098c/fepepaserukapawakapivirer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnrhc.com/clients/9/98/980d61ede38c9a35fe3396fb65651545/File/ruboranagula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/904jus4e4ugpcc8v369cfnb8o0/46782791841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/depat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/21698844812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f87b8210b00e786ebbc930e42d8c56f/79857138061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ni5jgjvhj8shrcidjol49ucb3/62981350130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/omijet97kvtgsr5ped6tlcg4tg/tejeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d72dd9931---74206088787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073d5fc1fad9---wepokotamararemosetubawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac80d7249a8---34453222905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ff0ad113c---darojupupegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c7ca9560f---89072328360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb6d094d99---90564001383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alisawedding.com/upload/users/files/181280788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105280142378987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b3a40153e---42819820678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fq1jl49iv2itvph4s4c5roa2vv/41920193724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=environmental+science+final+exam+study+guide+answersPDF 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_off0000dfd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E7 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 09e0ff54b85eb66a1617ae312b7331644f8ec3f5a4d60f93c50a3e66c5a84033
font_02_sfnt_off0001123c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123C 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 12aaea33b22c5edef5b1ca986cc4b6917ba12ef43aaf4c8a62f2ecff5ad93f98