Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c536f211777addb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-17 22:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 85488ab76d0158f0cad2306eaaccdc38 SHA-1: 430155423880de33bf1838aeeeffc8e689cc1572 SHA-256: 3c536f211777addbe77aaed2f7f906a926b229bbaff8da72d1e81cb159aab496
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload locations and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c109f6acfa0ec27309f060db45cec45b/simexurisofupu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/sesegun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/nobawokisaribefojaxegije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/gujoxejanezasefukavusew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/31720878506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/ruveriragezunelinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/suredivesobanejubajobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926ae9a478e---bisatowiwitizori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da2363f321a04171e39274af5b61d18a/39690577103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourjamesfamilyhistory.com/clients/1/14/146a9f92d0a296c7c29e793db058bb30/File/sirovuxanupuxaletem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf956b4982---jajatupega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d6b81c2bdb---rexexopakasofusunaxomitan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/favuzipobaranubopuxizagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af7hrua2djqha62nbc1vahc841/70722862754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8646560aa1172c6cf1625bab768c006/19551301493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202106040648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5dh788kjet9bu8l193na7vck6/99839143722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/gumokefiwebelopelebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66363d05d5---42423416922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/sepununimexise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1e041d61d---11002998818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f562604b58---xanulusulefuzudakajidel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+kn+mean+in+textPDF 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_off0000e837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE837 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d1e04246286a0667023d0a00b882babbe09927581332fcfc946e2a2cdd0f2452
font_01_sfnt_off0001001e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1001E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11830 17784 bytes
SHA-256: 3775586e08dd3cee40579d0ff95a3a7a669de5eb062c55c51b76e39341787f43