Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3afc17c080f6a2f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:54:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7597b6b40abb2c007ca33d017fb2938d SHA-1: b4b90fbd76b721997580604b6431f0e0e8bb16ec SHA-256: 3afc17c080f6a2f6e66492afc083621af78c1d69ea2051f1202d6efce5308bb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF used as a lure, potentially for spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/86310105725.pdf
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/renozarukuv.pdf
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/zerenivakulejes.pdf
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05c71207e6903122d6c1505f991818f1/5868083263.pdf
    • http://hide-bo.com/img/tmp/file/34336296294.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614169333bc89---20413324902.pdf
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161312bae0a79f---41984709435.pdf
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7807851978.pdf
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210913044351.pdf
    • http://mesterteto.hu/userfiles/file/fogujupobibakuxixi.pdf
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/tufovipevobojeravatidetam.pdf
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wizelexun.pdf
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73433187985.pdf
    • http://www.guus.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17846036671.pdf
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/19763538825.pdf
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/79947668407.pdf
    • http://taispacedesign.com/upload/files/nusomaxozajimokurizam.pdf
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/zifojabetekenivo.pdf
    • http://gwtcs.org/Content/uploads/files/58758902726.pdf
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/naguzalisosukudikim.pdf
    • https://pagodatalk.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/11672260943.pdf
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m508kt4d8h5724fed4crgaaji6/26791400842.pdf
    • https://jamisonfurnace.ca/userfiles/files/xefibizerulu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=the+bodyguard+whitney+houston+full+movie
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b333.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB333 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb45.bin
52fdae625c3f85c43e4dbbd7bf068292ab7d39fd322cd5265f4ef2f6307675dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB45 15304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ee.bin
ca035bbb047203812c97ff725a835069f7e402a4e55e759e48129043d2cc8ac1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EE 11272 bytes