Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a6e84c3a38d9e11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:43:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d2d96771c937be49854e2228ac209d59 SHA-1: 0dfc54b28384ddaec7ee1804326c0b9c69527e55 SHA-256: 3a6e84c3a38d9e11997c23eb95fa4c04b0df97050542b9c0f261337f28065698
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and distribute links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+teleprompter+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/7060588737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91451561942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/kupinuranulesapiluxumapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32236617467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.armstrongre.com/files/files/81346080668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvsvfbohj6n71f9e4a2fq6aq1j/93029266500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b5a010f730---78904176710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceraunavoltapizzeria.it/userfiles/files/5757158183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmontnews.com/imgs/file/89136685825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guidesdugrandlarge.fr/images/import/file/gowofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/33099849928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/61682739169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/71115077612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/kevenotinefulenexuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/file/9129606462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/zuwuxidodekugopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/podakotawije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saveurspoitoucharentes.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawidakinowoguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d2ff68aebd2fedd2bd06d00f6234aa1/92865269868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/36268057107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mklaassen.nl/images/file/kokowujolimolosaxefago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centonze-vini.com/userfiles/files/zukenimabuvemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eichler-kammerer.de/doweweg.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_off0000eec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC8 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 7d85c98a3af0a456d7247f5ec7201f88e02bd1c108350f35a68f5db7519e9fc8
font_01_sfnt_off00011ddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDC 10468 bytes
SHA-256: b1ce8eb07b3b6eba33622f078e4289c546d1b0ac56a8f450c3e093fe1a02af56
font_02_sfnt_off00013580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13580 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1