Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b84606e37376238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-08-26 10:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 84869dcc810ee901122a6079345aab59 SHA-1: 2b69266b1f1c833b64dce405979efa0dc694bceb SHA-256: 3b84606e37376238e87a229e78013a465afbdb7fb5be20999778cd7480eead26
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDFs designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=proverbs+31+english+standard+version
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/77040413664.pdf
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7eb4c0029d---vidakovujamu.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18d7dc27dac632efe697a14f9e2a847a/782230698.pdf
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f117bf14c1---sixogedokifiduwetotemu.pdf
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/zibuga.pdf
    • http://daiquangsico.com/img_duhoc/files/1581544843.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88b82dd93c68d4b99a22b2302624b1d7/34891991769.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b914b51bc5d---3959222777.pdf
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/rejupo.pdf
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/filamotizunegijajugi.pdf
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8lgc7pnptogu02cfbndbqbhsea/63450807466.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fbvtedn23qejbcsg30u2l1le6/kebegixugorukazipebofe.pdf
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fogapozugo.pdf
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96367914635.pdf
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a47261ec9bb87675fa8f94a64a01796/jubakalafuzelofa.pdf
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c97277481d6e39d4118b337c2ea02ba1/nepazudeseredep.pdf
    • http://www.vegagastro.pl/upload/file/lowegedovigul.pdf
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/37754929590.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/sifowuz.pdf
    • http://15449010.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210702_D6849856AFBE3DE7.pdf
    • http://nw-line.ru/generic/uploaded/vususajeluvome.pdf
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ee9b788af437ce68233a2dde28f13d6/xamaduwawanapojuzemawamaz.pdf
    • https://mimpidia.com/contents/files/puxesudexunebipuvab.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n14tj3uqaho6bmqsed1i60gdh4/jigev.pdf
    • http://kompletucetnictvi.cz/files/file/litapujabijeda.pdf
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/rikasimajunamumolenate.pdf
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bblv2ceme9bmqpdpijlu38vaf3/13907854710.pdf
    • 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_off0000e600.bin
e8907497761a96b0ed5ba460d190302c085a359365fa0a445c1d279e194ee7e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE600 10956 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff38.bin
3d3a9f1010d0ac4532b6185974f02408708a9cb857bf1f673a945b9863a991d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF38 16408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012991.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12991 16792 bytes