Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a957bfa21f050e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

108.8 KB Created: 2021-07-06 04:59:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1b7b197ed5c8613dc26acd730148646d SHA-1: e622ae40f4b5bcdebc15478f9591778cf08ae074 SHA-256: 3a957bfa21f050e9aec1957007a0ec9260c2f30b4fe3f3ad0a1373bb610e0db3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malware sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure align with a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9797

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=consistent+and+dependent+equations PDF link annotation
    • http://suamayin.biz/userfiles/file/fulixuxepapipig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahoba85.com/clients/2/26/26d353b61ac95a99d7df5001a3d58300/File/54983477653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/30040420489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfc65633abb---misomozubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/zoxotevivuvatusisalazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chesapeake-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48aed5949e05d1eff0ce9248e60a66b1/90116235112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/koponat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/3478144048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/gazuwizetafigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a091d34e3fa---3663550374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160712e3fca4ec---75590746803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/dadogufasefusebuzezipani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079916b68cde---vukuruderivakesupavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9f41363c18---vijuvufawixuxedamuxewiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f55731d6e8---gabujuguvuvezewavivamewat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cab3f5fa7b---sogoxozimokenedopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master-service.ro/images/file/96577604239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094bef095ebe---beperewosebibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16e134ef8ffcdb5d6239c78420e2e366/93166012039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/demr6q8cv8bka68naqqelasrjq/mawanatigumalokuwefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luxmarketing.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ukt6rlgb16ke8v0km8iaftq5n/86420139006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08bff15672c91a5017d41f00b957c539/84892914025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/reselovotixid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8656b4e42a---19350306866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/getezariduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjatkinson.com/userimages/89558847443.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_off000143f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143F7 18668 bytes
SHA-256: cd9a855fe0d8a47e0a233969f4ffa580f5c3355fdfc4b49ccfe0bf6d8e5e8821
font_01_sfnt_off000175d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175D2 10516 bytes
SHA-256: a5d382d1130f52240900315dd879a94a21fdc08790e1aff162fa6752cf008917
font_02_sfnt_off00018db6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18DB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1