Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c85617489ec7c19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-31 04:24:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b5b757795a7134b06b9d1892faa6e2e0 SHA-1: 52e5fa94cdb12f1040f89b26ca3472a404ea3707 SHA-256: 3c85617489ec7c1976bd74fb88b1807f2fe78e08d6541fc804bf5ebf10882cd7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it hosts a link farm on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and link farm indicators suggests a lure to download further malicious content. The PDF structure and embedded content are consistent with phishing or scam attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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
  • 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.
  • 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://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610450c825f4d---mavonalewalezaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/90371169538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1552a30d356afaedac960efcbaaab37e/mumufudujofumaxetezufawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1627271381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/lofuzinojerijomome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/99816521643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/16478395569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jogforbigt.com/clients/6/61/61f7a61d17da296148a50ccd59c4a139/File/80978784651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioghittigargnano.com/userfiles/files/49829096750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tramtron.vn/uploads/files/files/45092272747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1978hounds.com/clients/0/09/09313dc2b2b2138818c22350edca9cf7/File/fowemedala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rilta.net/userfiles/files/vasogefolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c114999c98e---fawosebupiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78g4s2m4m4t9m7jt1ajdkkde90/42962145957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160960b59a04f8---28664185503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flardochform.se/userfiles/file/25271457498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/73837548519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flygarfield.net/userfiles/file/48324507386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefarmatarapahoecounty.com/userimages/dilatesexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/wuladoduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6ef2e3308---36444888125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f89a5d7091a---mulevatigawasekiseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/38715533538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f87287eb41---20230947105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=bien+%C3%A9duquer+son+chien+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_off0000f4f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F1 18876 bytes
SHA-256: f40815d03c235769982e494ed9b8ad113e0d57093207ccc8eaa7c3ae314e4ffb
font_01_sfnt_off000123a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013bbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BBF 10864 bytes
SHA-256: a569345f573e8735f44cd8d0882506dd261195d94a921316c053d1c1b3ba9fc5