Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ae70b7d7a6e416d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-21 00:02:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 43fac454ab40427e3c73770133d25eb1 SHA-1: b85a97df1ea93a6e518be6dd9597bafafebe3503 SHA-256: 3ae70b7d7a6e416d062fad5db5963071c43a315831f5b364bfc4ef00112f8ad4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=arjun+reddy+movie+songs+naa+songs PDF link annotation
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/zebutunopugubifipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlinggreenhsclassof66.com/clients/b/bd/bdf8ab256cd88a603fc2b95a051c5839/File/wolavazudolejasusuxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609224ae0ded4---60639379017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5317455a03ab1ce92ac8e6ae1c5836d/rujupusetutuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/taselepujuwafuravisinolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/mubexixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876fe2f2c17---78551646108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2f8648ad36---40276130146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alihuata.com/userfiles/file/88835657810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f9b33d6894---95232435445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/fadawowakuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul6m6qpjnogh9hk6e3v9ovnca3/55094844124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc2df0af4f---85128072143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/mefolojubokebok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/68557152366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3D 5140 bytes
SHA-256: b340f3f56856bd15f4b988e33e122a7a9f289713724557de0d1758208c5b9875
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB9E 10612 bytes
SHA-256: eb965d49573c78840e9b414c31b06f04112cf14b47be8e33dafb8db66f42dfb3
font_02_sfnt_off00011fbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FBD 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230