Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3934eee2b11b46cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 02:08:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8e57ac57e8ae9d706ea9bfcf0241457d SHA-1: 5e1de2daf18a5de69d13e137afaa7c15e377797f SHA-256: 3934eee2b11b46cc460f2e1a32d23fd58aa7ebbb8996565720f7492c846f743c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm patterns, suggesting it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the malicious destination through compromised or disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=graph+theory+for+computer+science+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/56726857282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behbehaniprojects.com/uploads/files/94271046799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/435178721ef347493e6ff4de66aa3383/dafitajuwutulugevomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoteldanang.com/uploads/images/files/50165563981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077aab85e99f---23032542276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077090a6de74---70529560507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/20215311012458078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29f29d4c34431bc8e1a630a0c0c30fbb/laxarosovutedijozan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/totad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/65475929752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eedef4cdb5---vurobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202152821632856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegaletrotta.eu/userfiles/files/gadojuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9211b0ce4b---fetageruta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/18814983289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/35678381420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariasangiacomo.it/userfiles/files/49357784572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e33d6b5899---vubimabivanugidivexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavesmaroochydore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6d02v0ul1mgdupa1gio2d3smm/jelupaxanapifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/vavopofepugebuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2cji2mv4uk8sb4fjctofl69k8/bulugogagawajerogifezugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synerfreight.com/syner_upload/images/files/parubikoruvuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caopump.com/admin/userfiles/file/23088079634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1-cx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22420597746.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_off0000f533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF533 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 78a2f3a49d417b1d745c59221771e96441ae2f3e41962d0bbc41608658f8a16b
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF2 17852 bytes
SHA-256: fdbd9b4c0b0745493479b12e64041cc7a9f625bec6d7293da6369468c541ce11
font_02_sfnt_off00013cf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1