Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a61a766267d3b73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ed63fb9f2c0558461b9cd3295f0ea1dd SHA-1: 761fb238c554e9bed5eb9e833c0447fbb8e669e2 SHA-256: 3a61a766267d3b7321a24548463ac8cff37602f26cf56111e657a8d0c982d0f7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=makeup+manual+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://yljx.cn/images/upload/File/dawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c17e6a7063afe2cfed56501c98d413/wojupedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/42077526215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607632d45ed9b---genesoxorogave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608ac91864cb3---derezominaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.k-24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4b9586e82---minupuwobokixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25fbf111db9db4d4c5948b9c4ab3973d/nunasojogonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5ad8si596uvc6lul4vi4r7bbm/67117676985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077302c955ee---mumasotokuzutelovefagusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8tcf9u4see6ttivnmu2iv8f71d/60740678080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609416eb18708---6278046811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819310acf21---6169927074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/judodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/14172797344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/92869631264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ps173queens.com/clients/10779/File/15396706761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/78810928024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/radomud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fc5670aa7c98f785cf34c804e2e3036/kabilirozajurut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e12a608c6cfe67043e311c0fa5717e5b/37373175567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/48686967500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754bf87de8e---31924938966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b1804b3c5---53651016422.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_off0000dcc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC4 17828 bytes
SHA-256: 189886882f5da8f6aa9d0b68496e363e07a9f3d400e37ee561495d186c09de54
font_01_sfnt_off00010b23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001233a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233A 10572 bytes
SHA-256: fda054b92faf2ae8adaa7fe8400657da7386cd44f8c73f09b2ad25302ecdd9f6