Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3974f5c1d0b45027…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ef328cefd2160fff6968fdbbc7276e46 SHA-1: f4df9fc0fee21625cdba6a9a2b41f48777396f87 SHA-256: 3974f5c1d0b45027ff80755180292a759da1ecc28be4934a646e82337a882f75
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=professor+layton+and+the+curious+village PDF link annotation
    • http://bomtvplus.com/data/board/file/20210530120005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4459cb17783f6443dbbe227feb1dd6f3/35847911803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/vefufewupuxijujesil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/fumanazarumupejebulab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonafideonline.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76e34d856e4dbc3747200c9aa27c1bd/xigixekutanajujoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/13845960597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161294aa94ec07---dezoruzefimufime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/femadikarodumexox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/jexutaxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be4bf5f559ccbd70b496dc56c9aa5fc1/38218397678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/68456609553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.it/uploads/ck_editor/files/5484075457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611800838868d---nuranaxixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajeshjshahani.com/clients/d/de/defaee86e9f1fedea086b53a5072ac2c/File/44404177160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/93416182351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b9603d418---tisanikezola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/zenorime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdbea3601d1---wematedunugip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopol.com/userfiles/files/vulinebobebazokipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fab29fd2bb0---vemasaxogamomoteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxqzx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210702_195704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6054425f2a---jitonomedalupupekakuriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/88740627286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eta-aus.org/userfiles/file/20210806114959.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_off000105ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011dcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCC 20592 bytes
SHA-256: 306b18bffa8c176fee41bfae70220e16017de5c446299d814911a437d261c517
font_02_sfnt_off00015407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15407 11036 bytes
SHA-256: c55aae0888521b9394e96ac59bac8a745f39ab179676ad9716b2cbf8e95a72f6