Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a14a25f917e7f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.6 KB Created: 2021-06-27 05:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: efdf0df269505ac4567a5e647a2260c2 SHA-1: 4722752b7d68934befb5b2eaf118bc7a45c2ac16 SHA-256: 3a14a25f917e7f0b35841ae8386cf11470ff3a935ef14e54bfe90bf8c6a74a1e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads, strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021051005274073499.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608181a3cb9fc---sugiparofitenosopime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3022283da187ec10bd21afbece7c64a/93800922198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/gogotosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxe-pools.fr/i/File/97643938314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2b96d9b72---20955238254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalart.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094d06059627---fumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60B6FD15B1784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522220705838275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/89891289987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/36126728713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guchenes.com/d/files/nosenapevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9904faf5340189bc54f7867022a70143/gisezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ragozopeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f787d3d5bbb6427f8035ea3ff58a5143/lijotelesevubona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33a7a4efb700ceb9a9489d4efb5d0384/47409643433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.pro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aopmhpvfo3h0tcvt7hjik1ie16/mujizekobulaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a1676081c---kejezetevupawobijexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r3rc95qjl4d02qm7lhk5llk1l3/zunujujovirefuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottotech.center/userfiles/file/84660664300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folientastaturen.pl/_data/file/tujabax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interwork.sk/userfiles/file/xavelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonroller.com/userfiles/files/40292170724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87e9e92e3db6631d907fd4b68a77de3f/80805992914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=motels+in+lordsburg+new+mexicoPDF 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_off0000d5a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A8 17500 bytes
SHA-256: aa034e91ad6c66e51e8fee66b928e2137bfd4f717b19191872d05816b0bc6d0c
font_01_sfnt_off000103b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B0 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 89076116cc8d7329615318244f7140873b8f04e128875357cba45d3530c2d46b
font_02_sfnt_off00011d03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D03 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1