Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a7e2317b11ca63c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-03 18:42:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 9aa4504ed98bed86abe879e044d8a35d SHA-1: cf94c86eabc44bcc5a5d9ccd498917130be9605e SHA-256: 3a7e2317b11ca63c883a077895a7cc36ac56158e23dd4fe5ccc4a0ead41a0104
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' reinforces the attack pattern of using the PDF to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=carlill+v+carbolic+smoke+ball+co+case+brief PDF link annotation
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/41285621852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toonesk.com/upload/zomekazevikeruxuborivev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bearings-home.com/userfiles/file/gozinodizetirinejafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086245551bc9---pukod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/41412955759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/zikimutopizidoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qqhanoman.com/contents//files/vulumoxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okkbv7l48d95bsl3guutiolm5c/46046582955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f8aad271ac---mefuvinomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bhgjo12jg93ps92309qnot2hu1/gifavavexukupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a97ff828e87---pozejimukavaveguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ed9d3fdbbe7ea01a305b24c959ab20c/xomegasomudupobimozipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c8ccc12b6---lobevovor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080ea383f367---83443043369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/pidisigixapopopabiwikose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/60907777371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barcelonacentremedic.cat/files/galeria/files/dezataworo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252ab40b53661cca20103d6842463085/sizebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/nafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c844794e4---povefonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/36654230006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fajndoktor.cz/images/file/files/tojesanekodopudorizom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b7240a61b9---giwib.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_off0000e870.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE870 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10087 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 060632bcb2cd25ff0e24beb77da16d3c9cd27626fdb1f69db1bd038c7766c3d4
font_02_sfnt_off000118e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E6 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 58a07f3d5b6c4785b0b462e66530b68d5ebd495f9cf8d2cc02b72e9145720ae9