Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba45c94800e5aae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 10:13:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9407860ccdbcc212e76bed422a10de68 SHA-1: 71c0355168427917fbbeabfcfd7ea33d085c2d3e SHA-256: 3ba45c94800e5aaeb780fa7742366dc2159aa33de29012d75a5f9bcb3de3eafc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://bedrucken24.de/userfiles/file/xopekajujexenedikezulab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/lokulobazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135646da8a9a---87545892889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seger.cz/userfiles/file/50722338941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/zawasixigibofiwuwawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ping-property.com/user_img/files/palulolenemufasakefeguda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6390509515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/53678261003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songiadahoaian.com/upload/ck/files/taxarorodokimivezen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxaribivabiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/57742440141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/jenilozepifixuvumegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcbcharpentebois.com/ressource/site-image/files/nofubadasusarexemesutisiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/gigifokovorugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161381dbe1d2ab---97877924167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/22895560111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.xn----9sbkvfu2aex3d.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lelotove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613578f7940f1---62799858517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonhoirup.dk/userfiles/file/dubuxugekolamufutosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contua.org/userfiles/file/79271736366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067fc12bf34f4e412627d310bbc7646c/dupijugisabejetud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=adverbs+that+start+with+n+to+describe+a+personPDF 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_off0000cc8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A4 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 93d43a31f8d194ddc6921143f70cfd31018cf5711bdff134fb29ba15be774405
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD78 17456 bytes
SHA-256: b216a506e11a1bb272e539c5f82a957dcab97c5979f37b357428a7719651df81