Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3af328c84239b1e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-06-08 21:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 73b84a78ea0b39d0c945f14547da8fa5 SHA-1: 4787265979fd5295a5e518de99de15e4ca6b8a6d SHA-256: 3af328c84239b1e54a2ac9a2313a0082d92c2fdc8bb6b5ae9c60a83dadd8d9e2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it functions as a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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=vogel%2527s+quantitative+chemical+analysis PDF link annotation
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2o740kj6d3n7lrcgv4g0di050/sazapubiwefixosukuwoleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sgq3bqhbkbco5i8vcv7n1gd78v/vusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90e91c7d156cc6e3cc4d88159ec02730/zelivamevij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/donavalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cd3418c6c2d59baee85c51575f1402f/todezutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079c976a2577---44755944257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa247b482e---48543973748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/69693621555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afbdce1beea5dab50c3483875e0c1a90/puwadevijamesax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6a2ed06d2---fekujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b27528b9d---memexilovasuxonojowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b5cdc8f68799984dd02edacd34a68ef/falot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dpke8mcubritralpmfvi0ga16/28939176713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb6f2237184---83753135015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/21849223483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/39057176119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF982 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 3d64e002811c0fbaa04d69bdb51359d048d08ce9cafc0a1b5c0413d306c7246b
font_01_sfnt_off00010be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE0 11368 bytes
SHA-256: a32d6b4ec6500e4eb02f848bf47fade85f31c19b4109af0630cfa9823045f282