Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b2ac340f84952d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-08-19 07:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 796d1eedeac8734a5cabaa6aa05b85d3 SHA-1: 547876936c3b61401b2fd4b80c14b3f47c2d65a1 SHA-256: 3b2ac340f84952d22d0c2b008b524fb9a17a1e34e32bbd6c826ce6fd60d54996
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns suggest it's part of a larger malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dead6d69daa669f8ae9210ed62319dac/pakideresineguzinibiro.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/72923390771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/82215744907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/84033027572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thinhhoanggia.vn/Images_upload/files/vuzuvakuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/83260014614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystal-lamp.ru/uploads/files/60172460969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/94432428785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/nolosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sofafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleni.cz/userfiles/file/revofutusaxazikudunejoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/77568743258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agisma.ru/files/pages/files/33474017055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newhorizonscrisiscenter.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eui0tm2c324l153324rsbbfb3/dilaxozefisupigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50f150e3b03227a0f61a62f8963c1c94/vesexupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/xuvojidusariki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hqus2tlpdlofvdu9khrt00ci05/35467441164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e8df719362---sipetixesanenonerijug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607554b56bcba---xakefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/fudav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=social+inequality+forms+causes+and+consequences+9th+edition+ebookPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cf65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF65 16184 bytes
SHA-256: 537ebd4059096a146b63ad6a1fbce75d5d0a0d95903db0c5bac025093cd372a4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF933 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001114a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1114A 11576 bytes
SHA-256: 2e47382ba4ed5447075ccb79a53937c78d8e129a641b0464143ec3e2b1ad8c3f