Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d2e8197c02ca806…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 157a0a9604f70e8e7548c9c72c1444ba SHA-1: 2ad2d3db8260eb827ca05f15e8ec64584c92c2c5 SHA-256: 3d2e8197c02ca8066966adc9553fbd9584536b467534cc25cb6bd621fe178fcd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity, likely spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://paradigma.bg/uf/file/26347692824.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dvvp2lg1rtcrt9p1k4k7nnsg35/pejagimudosufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff414b8f2a0---tewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1gdlvq1hkufr6v5bo5aptad8d/ganoxiwewagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huijingweb.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-10/20210710191155918486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/kuwavejadulovefok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89901918739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/nozusafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/soworufowoworexutiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svazekobciorlice.cz/userfiles/file/32284110985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitofthespiritcatering.com/clients/9/9e/9e5e3efd27976f294ade36eaf76108d7/File/60659933933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquarium-kochi.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32323795915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plan.msu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2452824067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/xiwaxemebibejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849b86090db---govajepivuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/06/19/file/gobagogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9le7mk1904pskv9ct3crca4c6/50719348598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimigubellifoundation.org/clients/f/f9/f96c94eea877db95ad0a8b6fd709b1ed/File/63944327517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e23462f2c58---45172863880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bede44ac4be---gapazivojejovix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/jejavulaliwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dae-young.kr/upload/fckeditor/file/72163402102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c445b159b---5733494954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tckontrola.hr/files/xotesutarufolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techsystem.gr/data/uploads/ckeditor/files/najiredofojovafanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=wkhtmltopdf+footer+on+last+pagePDF 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_off0001288b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1288B 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 752466bfa60c272ce6d10ac7bc21b131f5a1456aef779b7494d0edb66aa0b91f
font_01_sfnt_off00014187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14187 18724 bytes
SHA-256: 3a352ba3883173787c39b9b27ba1dba40de3163ad07dd4150f73b90c880a26c7
font_02_sfnt_off00017308.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17308 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1