Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d5b0cb0cdf11b74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:08:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f9bca95a481d057ac58b27f39f32c1fd SHA-1: 97c5e3e847b0f3f032f456cb6c9176bc8ff50b03 SHA-256: 3d5b0cb0cdf11b74dc969a3502f7371f26459bca5f3390bbdf07b00d5064705f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hobbs+and+shaw+download+free PDF link annotation
    • https://maintogelonline.bet/contents/files/37141316190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/12083029177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c62213eb13---xaboda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ab67072e48---77995084955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smepil.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/51764843192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janaturismointegrato.com/uploads/file/52067214669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heatexchangersolution.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-10/20210910070047131197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paolacaone.eu/userfiles/files/64313764059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyarmatilovastorna.hu/userfiles/file/nurerejinozugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/kobamakeduviboturak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chernogolovka.inhome360.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131cd03ed730---notekela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/61092414200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ydyb.com/filespath/files/20210914132438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a33acc4ff---palafidezizunaneronutujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corporatiegids.nl/uploads/files/ziwodowolelelenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96stone.ru/userfiles/file/52780064061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bf60c443bf5438a2ab0071265ca9f26/sapiriruwuradazikoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palezieux.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/beriga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-bouquet.be/userfiles/files/88052930826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/45380958419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133867735189---zojubedivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/newasami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7332150ff55db7a7aa04bc9fe28f5325/89237525696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doradcyprawni.com/images/pliki/rezagamigemazufetobuw.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_off0000b9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A3 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 1001329d00376ec014d89b2ee36cfc7f5864c05294157a2454d8e38f678f5e41
font_01_sfnt_off0000e512.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE512 10476 bytes
SHA-256: a2a5b792546eed82748d7fb81b5e7ab5da58fca509f37f70291301e2915acb17
font_02_sfnt_off0000fcd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1