Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d3545c2a19af231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-07-19 14:25:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 75c2afb2b003ba98be45a9d7873a9e1f SHA-1: a820f0f228d2c13cb07142e2dbf494ef6344564b SHA-256: 3d3545c2a19af2313c8d5ab6c2a8c18e4469bca5dd19d6d81b56b21cd741a8a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, potentially for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/voriketarufuzarafoduro.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bangprice.com/bangprice.com/beta/cms_image/file/rebiwafanupumibunipivuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myshopekerala.com/userfiles/file/watorolalokodemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b93aa021cd0846ed19918e5809b3f3b4/48430437109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cch6hdtlusni2apeggi8s2e7f0/vuzoxexufumanenikug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a78c36812f07bc987b794150919aaa43/19435117615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff84c73990---49862526540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a08005bf7---3701901407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/60488414567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trimix.bg/UserFiles/File/sowatusali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alternativefitness.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a89a4f0b8---73780829950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuha.be/_files/file/39494459516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/40264520625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5cefdc3cc1---50007067997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4a52a2942c---3859159762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gustosandvic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dubudadezoromegamabodub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607214a58ae27---wanineporiwimuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamokugrofa.sk/admin/fckeditor/file/56331342533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediacomriccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9e051229d3---tevewawizugaromab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/borogefasupixiwixakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=functional+anatomy+christy+cael+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/tuxifovagodutopuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE293 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000faaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAAA 11076 bytes
SHA-256: ac88bf0ba592cb14e15c3d53d2805f45408a0b7ea2a274a8626ae5ee69cae0fd
font_02_sfnt_off00011447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11447 17408 bytes
SHA-256: cfbb41293a2c4bc254da71e064125be0742c19c9cb26fbdcdde3729cdf201b78