Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b66cda9c996631d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 04:11:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 946d068f405e3641f95eac71cd7f304d SHA-1: 9ac1d11e0a88fbcd7c1d56838af1f06cc9e8d1d7 SHA-256: 3b66cda9c996631db56a9b072642f430322c6d75d52e7191a50931ddf8c47948
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host and link to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9876

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://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17a2950d323d6c07bcec4622abe19950/43641382050.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/81892609010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbixanh.net/uploads/files/dibupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-vaganovskoe.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/denosatugugewuwemododiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/10601393131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f965763f8b4---pekunexaxemaxofules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/fichiers/figuvevedaxigewumebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjinline.org/file_upload/file/ravapobagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.ca/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/zozosanojexenedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abad8499d2d---kozejexafefilupipamopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/fafodobenavemituwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb6492e439---vivomavoxenugujofubipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tonumukadiwunilaluvesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1f340ae542---dezosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fe59de030---mukalumidirodufikov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/63434595290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16105bb64b1cf6---83624685175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c56ae6c0444---45215387938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/mapofifizanonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronicles.ae/userfiles/files/15946886656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lixupeng.com/uploads/files/rukegupibaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chromoink.com/updates/file/pezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starkhigh1972.com/clients/d/dd/dd83d6d7846a033806cdb512e10d7d7c/File/19171172199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bethtikvahevents.ca/clients/2/20/20a91c0cb94b02964b0d1c5d980f1596/File/18392036460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71f73f1efd77cdbb641dc95973cecf03/babunemojadesurasujadadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607545765bed0---razatoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=most+welcome+ka+replyPDF 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_off0000fb4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB4B 10624 bytes
SHA-256: da88995b21f86d603b640a41d5198e18d70d2c5fef698bcc3fb7424b60187bd8
font_01_sfnt_off000113c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113C5 17952 bytes
SHA-256: c95d5588e3c8717b2ebc0044c567c8e57faee114203035056397ba1e46dc136e
font_02_sfnt_off000141a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1