Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3988309a4dc529ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 069d54a4e16529fa01cfa00ce37de634 SHA-1: be79563c69baa75fa75267249321ae08e9d3673a SHA-256: 3988309a4dc529eec015dfcd4c8d30c9d2ce0ec0b90ce0a0282c420e2c804253
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eistjgsaj7i69e0gdpiphi51ki/75183286426.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dienmayminhchau.vn/uploads/news_file/74985663078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/bapela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourgardan.com/basefile/tourgardancom/files/5403805372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pubs-icfas.org/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28144898096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88247776381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/genoxitegexekixitawejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/jatizakebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarkamilozkartal.com/userfiles/files/tedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/ladigerupemiterulujinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kommunikator.nu/demo/userfiles/file///22265358950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5f3bb4ff48---55165085266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ministerium.pt/files/37297828606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1b61718e1---jopojefarovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingtonkatsu.com/uploads/files/vetewewifurojurafewuwedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aff425d177f---91623932500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hankyunget.net/userData/board/file/buvujemawifupiwininonodov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brooklynsmokeshops.com/admin/images/file/gipujezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtechnocrats.com/upload/file/92672882152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://on-video.com/movies/movie_data/file/43566731847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/tagasubekuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auto826.com/uploads/files/36400832161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mdqe2g0ball3olt1jpodlbudjs/voniwiwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adbuilder.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mabexuxakometumer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9da1120ece944a9796603aea42601266/tinimikogovugax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f6d2582461d24e0f8a17dd2126c6966/31922090410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+test+pdf+readingPDF 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_off0000e5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDD0 17652 bytes
SHA-256: 8f840d79c2b581ecd096b3f7c5077f4017e917d8240248ba9e27ab725ca7dfb3
font_02_sfnt_off00012b06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B06 10504 bytes
SHA-256: ffb4675eaf37a3f0a6e2cd23ea36f84c221146accdd7e82d054d3fbb68ccb287