Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a1e0247ac95d6a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:51:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 061dda4f60e303a0428c4d466930cba1 SHA-1: 6393fc5b501ecd9544035c4b1ebbb8bcc2eafd1f SHA-256: 3a1e0247ac95d6a179fed625e8c968185a8ef9d6ff862d1f7ce985d836a2d2c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=neighbors+2014+full+movie+download+free PDF link annotation
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62b080688d57eb8cc2b4d7f32f39d160/vimekuvafiwiletudov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7efb3807c---gasorudopemusixozogesupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/galak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierrettung-in-katalonien.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dulegejelevigoremaxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/xajuzogilebexunidadepowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086fc65c62eb---figexerudezubotoxizigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/4489211512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f9ee826a6868f5127388198aec513bf/52631640636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161055cf51c601---82876613312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/15424838863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c15a237177bbb72503289a27b3b2868a/nunanenazibalubajudipet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquarell.ro/userfiles/file/70283421907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4aobmpegvi83jpd78dk3mvnv2/53429950688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c4a46517ae---mizomanazer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/bedojuzisib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa81091c4e8---79408491716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/20696291241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drtamerturan.com/file/gibana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a13d9e2c442---xarotoregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southwest62.com/clients/6/66/666176aa584decdbf8d0f1e9213c5ee1/File/81525280324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118946a9f625---64759518013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodinovysoused.cz/upload/file/fojetuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kominove-centrum.cz/media/files/file/levuwufam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samilove-payitforward.com/clients/f/f9/f9b0b202ed5d2cb263a89f8a9bd08a94/File/tapufede.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A0 16100 bytes
SHA-256: 4532ac0a6c6b8f7d135ec99a90efc6f946a3b0b3ffc5f99e27020ffc8ff72aa2
font_01_sfnt_off00010a37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012248.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12248 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 0e4cde3d5bdd5452960de995a4807c8da4ec665155a9812e2f8e54e6c49b7878
font_03_sfnt_off00013922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13922 11444 bytes
SHA-256: e8a87424756c121d6b2e16d764f5aca5a9bee159caec28c46bda4926c0e30769