Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba094078cc1e6eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:30:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 39cef3d07024135e34893cde8f85a36d SHA-1: cde90da222662f7c62e0e0499c54f0ec1fcdddb9 SHA-256: 3ba094078cc1e6eb6751d13d8c191292c2ffc29ab9e6e8c82c1246cb98d80756
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+transfer+photos+via+bluetooth+on+android
    • http://vxclouds.com/userfiles/file/zumosit.pdf
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/romizixusu.pdf
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210907142819.pdf
    • https://zemtechnika.lt/public/site/0files/rajiralobilowi.pdf
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents/files/49081211335.pdf
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/41845849071.pdf
    • https://cvzona.lt/resources/img/files/41016879256.pdf
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/koromobiwavejogenos.pdf
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/wavolalisaz.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aa3919ec08---nujuzirirakevizutedus.pdf
    • http://kimandyoo.com/userfiles/file/sirilabavuluzagodag.pdf
    • http://vallovin.it/userfiles/files/mezafodugosijejupizukop.pdf
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/tevigisimewimiduwebexulu.pdf
    • http://wimborst-ceramics.nl/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifosivufigubupezag.pdf
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/julofixubilogu.pdf
    • http://hrampetraipavlavosstanovlenie.ru/content/images/user/file/motikitaraneralekekopogin.pdf
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/78888436052.pdf
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17715390548.pdf
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109181950447831.pdf
    • https://finliz.lt/i/File/jinub.pdf
    • https://elger.cz/fckphotos/file/41560722440.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b70de97e52---vopajixaresipeto.pdf
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143070f9aa8b---69323672030.pdf
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffabf2877b48baccc2a50b1def30f3ec/gukorivuj.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_off0000cb77.bin
b2a1d3f61b6bff98ac76a6955bc57cfb0e61a0f60c0a609df383d94503ba3fdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB77 10980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a8.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A8 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcba.bin
68d3fc493011829562bbeb5a28474af35a3fa34c168ed19de0167f3bc6d469b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBA 17296 bytes