Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a3424e2cda49e05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:04:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: f88778a4a943b0e961651e78c5695b7e SHA-1: 2db3b15ca86b2fb417de5a54af403eec0f5aceb9 SHA-256: 3a3424e2cda49e05c3c0c4d57f21134eb023916dad2fd4282627ea71c3b6e36e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits vulnerabilities or serves as a phishing lure. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://voijin.com/userfiles/files/bepizafo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/rumagijudeguzobesisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5078ac26022f57c0547d126cd042f2c/vozupoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjbtrh.com/files/pic/file/tulilurinamadirotasevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isabellepieman.com/userfiles/file/zulujosagimofakagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxijogetaweduwivuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/seremuvozofavodonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdf8677036ba94754a2a8fdb665fdd92/24493244949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9b4d1d7e9---zamabemutajavijagimujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/64284236638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81323505870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adeb4f1b41f---14051877356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.golfusa.be/userfiles/files/97792091432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daynexweb.com/upload/ckfinder/files/52227366606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/36631381591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/65668280932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcece2b75189d639fed7bb55c0ea51ef/wolixaxezezus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i88k8ebamsul3fmd0dclk7lg3b/64510764451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=graphic+design+books+free+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.posluh.hr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/834723734.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_off0000d759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD759 17688 bytes
SHA-256: a41ee560934767f08d6dbf682821a32807890c94c27cc0e66475283f5c61df17
font_01_sfnt_off00010569.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10569 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D80 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 022b7cdf8e26fa99da5beb486a0c932ac23e8cda407da7f8a7fe9a9fc3033c0e