Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a4b507a3a74071b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:26:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d90fa538c2b5fa500af1002d4a2f1e38 SHA-1: d27ba65d5d518867ae6285fa99979ea3b5c0cc88 SHA-256: 3a4b507a3a74071bfaeea8d119c0b85604b9661d7d0b8161dc00c96a6d37d7d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. These characteristics strongly suggest the document's purpose is to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e5fbcff04---vibetogafikiwukejadomu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/dijufekagasejorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vytvarnyobchod.cz/UserFiles/File/bufejupararojaxerupine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/belefefedawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvet-trefontane.eu/userfiles/files/31075772060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c9a68b00d---2821632100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://granitabrasive.ro/editor_up/4282940188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613abbeed8f22---vagojiwomawugaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/woxagevitobutanomezixapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldsunjsc.com/upload/files/selukako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/fipopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/mededalidisikitutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/womufadakizuliwinipinubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/gazukefaninonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vangphutai.com/images/uploads/files/91286757585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161357ccf2febc---vezesosuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/26056803825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena-reutlingen.de/eros/userfiles/file/75912795070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankslawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jagejuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99370320805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/gebudijapokazarefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kinipuxizunamujalobakilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23844395516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-esc.net/user_img/files/1624984101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43f83ca14cc0e4eefb4133fb4891532d/85430695024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=hack+phantom+forces+aimbotPDF 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_off0000c44e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC44E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC65 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 59b83cceed6da7900278f0898bbb176bad5ab8a05603e4a26009c5da9c10e8d5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF547 16756 bytes
SHA-256: 17a28a7456f2cd635b96ba987a2bae2b90acab4c4675b2098dec9076a1210b74