Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3bf782a0cb722ae5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:53:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f40d40c2e8dcf6697fa774ff262c2013 SHA-1: 556b1e3f4768805e3512e65dbf1543db0114555a SHA-256: 3bf782a0cb722ae5e0a10d66446ae50f9fcf48d7c3b26887e27e57f16401519c
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://hykylalumni.org/userfiles/53681265750.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--pr3b03lcdvwu9dpynqkc.com/DATA/file/20210729150554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810696aaa49---91679156462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/22881888698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trans-serwis.com/userfiles/file/55485076700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wildpflanzen-planung.de/file/viwoperozamiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/daxewukemulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tc-antey.ru/uploads/files/10735416857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.lu/userfiles/file/74419287691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078f7150ad2a---bitele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/61183449369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fqdr54hnbj5pm8quo3fgqcqk6/57984032819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucity68.com/clients/e/ea/ea220da86df44fb0ae3b7c8e8295ccc1/File/55585822887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suadienlanhhanoi.net/upload/files/94841183572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/85897627323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkanyhajo.hu/files/file/bakikixatatigadogag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojpphdb56r386bjgo64r376hv4/64115541360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/43594991737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamhelios.vn/luutru/files/somuwivuvigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marjojaspers.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vogoruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8be058950e55652888feced011d7df17/kumomesosuvajogaxoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsmontaggi.it/userfiles/files/pobudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intervalhousehamilton.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27395435035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=placer+county+inmate+listPDF 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_off0000fee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEE2 10608 bytes
SHA-256: aac27d53c41608327eb845362cda83c612c1912be551aa0c081353945445d512
font_01_sfnt_off00011729.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11729 17900 bytes
SHA-256: 6ee1bb1f66cd35013074110abe17081ab16ae61e6b7f311a1c6158d43f399cf7
font_02_sfnt_off0001459e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1459E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1