Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a575ca96699624c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 07:05:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bd7bd208292663c6c0350f37fb27d559 SHA-1: 1a734ee43af764b1b6367718deee29d78b5bfdc0 SHA-256: 3a575ca96699624c5a4a3ccc7fb7ee4c019311a55d0184eb51671676e1dd070c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to exploitation or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=compiler+design+syntactic+and+semantic+analysis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulaxigazobetoboref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2j05bl3vbh08tge6cpv2tbo55c/besolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/ridetibuvarokuden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/85037545383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/galufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7de6957e3cc3cdd31cf203d3e85396c/61917392023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf8324b3f1d---11081603607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736ff2133b6---zipirovadasoxoxiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xogopuwuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxartparquet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b21a01d284eceef1df3e02477d90443/raged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/47033823162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a369081b4---54637552262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/50693528995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-20/20210720140759872175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cad9cde545d---defiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numismatika-nbkpdy.cz/userfiles/file/28465186174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokerbau1.com/contents//files/97974230207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tangiahoang.vn/Images_upload/files/kilutowarumotupuwiveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611f065f75faa---18479068783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rozotiwinojidirujuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/86693994878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608529878a6ea---nerazugagufivasasumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b039f8226118e0743014287c81cb497a/vidipolik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91b17a241f---96005159289.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_off0000e0ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF911 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 8aafb7c888ae4406c30922b3094b8d115ce962036a74031ead15d587a25f61da
font_02_sfnt_off00012891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12891 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 745466b8f684de9290f830691c84a84aa0a9808a99b47ec66286e85305b90b4c