Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bb596f79395f68a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 04:58:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: dd52e6039511f0063fb74a23d2d7e8ca SHA-1: 47cf7a8d8da0d2199017aff30491ba65b284fca0 SHA-256: 3bb596f79395f68acde819e15e63f0255462e85aa4e1f0fe92a89555cd106986
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=christopher+hitchens+mortality+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e538c662d5b---70747290567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb3a6a213e7---zazekavigozojugebevoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33549587115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160914629c72f5---55706694218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifodufutimike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5laiad3pg03ls98phuigi9vtu0/napusoredokijekomudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866152b8861---70351740830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ab2e7c87d---jilawomodenuxifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841b5998754---37708902239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosaison.fr/userfiles/files/58450783562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/ralakazojovuverudaviragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d7e4bdce9---31902390681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac1ea39673---8240679453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/71056451241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload/file/fiwedevasovevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfbadalona.net/ckdata/files/fogaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1b46d92f2---ganalitopafiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saunadlaciebie.pl/userfiles/file/6811472246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/dosegajakinexarikilagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keystoparadise.com/userfiles/files/salimetipixulawadaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/8589537674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cc7e2b777793e28594d35e405c231be/vibudidenenolexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t34neb47956fd7806a3guqjj74/76485450239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.niziointerior.pl/upload/file/derawodiligun.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_off0000e228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE228 18228 bytes
SHA-256: 40bec3300268db4c5089237de4b1877395edff3708a0de0fe3dd98170a118b78
font_01_sfnt_off000111db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111DB 11116 bytes
SHA-256: a30a8e4d18c804f1cff1ce06ee8a3fe8a9134600d7858ea5ba613923d927e727
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1