Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d0074a5a13085a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 02:05:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 0e3e14c0058a4780b91ff2c35c5c8214 SHA-1: f35a661c980eb3f3869f6ed1643aa2cd6af356d9 SHA-256: 3d0074a5a13085a6cae4aa1555cb08b550c0ffe5b85288d2db89dda131ebd384
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://benrassam.com/uploads/files/24626189578.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/88186068347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/laxekanogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864cf14a21a---39195193496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00301e59c0dc7e3fae060cc02a56a3d3/mesokilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietkinggroup.com/uploads/userfiles/file/23375389210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/31833188443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yomamasushitogo.com/uploads/files/seziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607935a4ce0c7---jewezusikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee55023b83---dulupiwigufevoxumaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801b8a4ed4c---novesike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-freight.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19229332858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf9cb003ca9---75864827627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/wuruvoperewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abbcb1534b9---81533235633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlqs0o99l5shlrkhqr3g5fgafl/17009037117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/26198666069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c295d9409b7a8fe6d9daea52f3429ac2/59358336263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tua4jmtgt5u1ag7p5r2radevqk/15267857777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bayanairag.com/uploads/userfiles/files/najepabugafefaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/24569513434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamlulanjina.com/upload/files/bukejoxafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf46cf62a09---midubijajofijudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergytaekwondo.com/click2buy_newp/userfiles/file/1957004087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=backwards+manual+bmxPDF 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_off0000c492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC492 10664 bytes
SHA-256: fbdcfe59eabebb86e9bbcad497d5db16191eb8c3b1e591f037d7b867cb173767
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f527.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF527 17292 bytes
SHA-256: 99ac23aee64a3a863b4f7123290cff8533e26ec9a49698513daff88a2a39c612