Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ba6421fa70f005a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:10:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 59238307a485d3262ab1ab13df7578ac SHA-1: dfa6d38db7db87daf4253f5e664fe0c6cec150b1 SHA-256: 3ba6421fa70f005a68b73def63d0f94577d83ee0bfe5696ab2b0d047b0902bf1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to trick users into visiting potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+last+witch+hunter+download+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://mobspace.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/jajowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/741a2141d8e49c2330b58cce85ebed66/genobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pekingtogo.com/uploads/files/14802512074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/62831726950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2ecd490d49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fac3887a3ee603faa0040fe5b9182979/zemubovasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-zub.ru/userfiles/file/90699278665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/84566083824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4e851e2a21---26090780431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f679db0bba---tabumisawenuruviwunavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c5d953c379---8997750520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094807076884---17508913443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/midadifunemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091146078581---gobovunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f91f770657---wovogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48774e02036a3f85b935b8933fc4e747/34894763365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d261342a7cf6da7a05ecd72eb48dd597/72766319485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd116ec79e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/wulikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiavysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/52094060971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/fuxigexaxukisonezagopenos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptairsupply.com/userfiles/file/16316220720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/197c80d1b4eb2ac0db2bb7cbc504b4d7/bunumuluwivajuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fpp4vpvb6m0dvpmqn0gmf5g7n1/88867352775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/meputuviwabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d4d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D6 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 9846559b2f5ff7b6c3ce94318e03dce661f598d297b47863dd59324579fa7332
font_01_sfnt_off00010131.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10131 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad427696c186d48074c08770f70e5714b4a3b497faebb9218bdf8157bc43b68
font_02_sfnt_off00011a81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1