Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a07ae098bcca1b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 384558ca1f3362038699e07c3ed817d1 SHA-1: 6b537d87e1f341abd494c18ac9251adec6f65083 SHA-256: 3a07ae098bcca1b05a2a3b7396c42164880dadd45fa6e2c7376ae2a4e50ff375
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links and the PDF structure suggest potential for exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/pukekaf.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdfc0bc2829---44113851730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e2784481e5d226b9298979685b6251/90785596425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermoulin.com/userfiles/file/79955443957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65989978913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6ea3665c4b7d8429b3c0c24e21e2552/pixikuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/vulatebojabalofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6df86c654---74467668055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608683e785ee6---jogetatakogoxumep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78455575472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christschoolblr.in/userfiles/file/zikumixamadigeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cutfq0ah7qvepvoq547d319aa/mejasupalizovezabojelib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/70630915211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610cbe616937a---rurikizufasanizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/8791186714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607059e05f4d9---97990713500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/nadita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a867674f13f---93219721278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e39f3488de0---63610440270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/46194108441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/86079676722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80cc26aab5f8e068dc6901feddd7b143/98337103754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/94675877767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12519245846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/96729145088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/98588326628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=the+wandering+earth+in+englishPDF 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_off0000fd72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011584.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11584 18860 bytes
SHA-256: eadfe78e933cf0fd387e2312db90401ffbbcdf8b4190212bf404d3d936a29709
font_02_sfnt_off000146d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146D4 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 95a605557b10348a42d717578faae0a1e0b76cbe1798130e34403c3f6f0eb2d8