Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3943c0e9aa2555a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 04:41:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 71e300637e32bf74e14589df9b2adcf9 SHA-1: 9d669ca9c4ffa106128634857213abe2bb9edd53 SHA-256: 3943c0e9aa2555a56598f76a2c838693c2936347a5542842b9c0fe220d9ede5b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external links and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or downloader attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dienlanhbachkhoa.info/upload/files/52722079325.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://247hvac.ca/fabulous1/uploads/files/vuwugekefefejujadazojawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/suzirerejumilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbeeldt.nl/userfiles/file/kimen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/semimumixilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avigailpekelman.com/sites/default/files/file/timege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gkdjlsceu3dek0b7eemfdeqt3n/45968121875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebanksunited.com/clients/7/7d/7da19d52c1086e69e61582739ce98a0f/File/88308824746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ac7da993f---xesod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfecbfc127e1402baf0bff4747fdefcf/28916329494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac0325fe792ad6755b1089f5992ef189/nitejovubuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00608d44a3e302299c142bf0323636aa/12051968838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/39585876388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/51285124270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simplehome.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dosisixewakizimimejeweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/93772043087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7t6q7q1m68ssv6aorsi4h11dd/lurexifokumitutowolafoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikavudodixokidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/22890159786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/3462731765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/gizufinonin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071d38e6184b---2685021257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/rimedofelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fde93f4c2---39056526875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=lean+six+sigma+green+belt+practice+exam+freePDF 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_off0000f636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF636 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E48 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 4b1d18f036d5fbd45ecff1ee2d169d2b05fd48eb5e9abe0fe9075e493449d12d
font_02_sfnt_off00013c92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C92 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 35b5162333b77e0e04c0603ab4ee67d6747be075942a6692b9e28ef9ac386039