Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b80b4d537733d2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:36:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d39560037ad5eb8923b0d5152538dc30 SHA-1: fdf6586f7f2131288c338fdf4ce8f75d60d19053 SHA-256: 3b80b4d537733d2ae53e4afea6b6a435e0d3b4d6665c06e8a5a0bf3dda765629
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable domains. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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 http://saydersan.com/firma/files/15602140477.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/507324349609362d75f38b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/60558223674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dallapietamarchisio.it/userfiles/files/pasatogidipominamepole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fontan-montag.ru/img/upload/xaburoveledadegem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e828a79ee3666079781cff4ebc86745/39170607540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bejuzoterisopulegisozuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7tobhp4etb8qhdfrvlb1sl0egf/27688299641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/91582640476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydiction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depomugenepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62296989575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents/files/12372292487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimecostruzioni.it/userfiles/files/47892710636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb69720e7fb67ddbd34b8f3e2b372740/mawetakubika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasbelldescendants.com/clients/40432/File/37759474246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/kesidivedojavuxalojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfb6697ac1c---fedenuvate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/16919662933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e42bb10ad9---62384828719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f66fc4e378de5d608b725046b35384d3/roruvajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/boxuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderjamesbackcatalogue.com/userfiles/file/70574923182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ottopianos.nl/files/kewebojapujagum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=reasons+for+growth+of+delegated+legislation+pdfPDF 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_off000102ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011abd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ABD 18156 bytes
SHA-256: c4fbf128fb01181ff8dc29026082a73352376bc3f1c1ad2e1be22ffacec18b8d
font_02_sfnt_off0001491a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1491A 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 7d35eca20c9e50222a78d8780ded174b941b3c25b57f63d58c00e16a55bdce25