Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bf5e357f24d7767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ec325ea9af98b1c961fde9e1d84ce79d SHA-1: a9b04b7c1160c662b9907a70cd40dac4209bc25f SHA-256: 3bf5e357f24d7767bc49f9bf1d4c1cf1766809c3e3cebd91e1dc303fc603ec30
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs, including one pointing to a raw IP address and others hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of multiple PDF_URI heuristics and the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e3cfccf6b---95775828793.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sasajazubaxidapaxelefuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/55104539073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deccanquest.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/2126262944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assisdrive.pt/userfiles/file/fipib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/pororibuzofow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71908342311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d7f384f104---31138164359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/nurorajijidit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/dodowetimejexalawokizuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/56678110641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7a0c98da92---88012834207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://10glazsikeyrosa.ru/file/16663085496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitaco.com/uploads/images/files/46678448278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/5555268841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e0e6ae3ffb---42712972462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eff1eb7fe5f---3783803062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15825f6133503d8c5358f8da2a3cff70/54821301337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/71431603617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefjordbaklawfirm.com/clients/876731/File/6024297971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dc2119f03a---kidavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.125.49/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210830_010344.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/82871126952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://50wj66.com/clients/a/af/af9d65f11c1965a5434adcd4cd578f00/File/dalevelavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=arabic+english+words+pdfPDF 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_off0000c228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC228 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 3b7dee47be80105af35808588122850b1b9bfe4a266e9a130eacbf6828a1294d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED59 11008 bytes
SHA-256: 02b15cf02dfceaeabf4f7ab039de3d2e98ef8a00d04a5727ecd842ad20e6165b
font_02_sfnt_off00010682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10682 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1