Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d7cf40c2a6a3185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: f33b88c02e78ed98dcda0b421d4d4157 SHA-1: 578dca442c2af3b27d44e59bd60d1161842f2266 SHA-256: 3d7cf40c2a6a31858557f5a5074f3bc9922615924117b6a5213551332ef8c50a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, with ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly flagging it as malicious. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/52758864493.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cannamelis.com/userfiles/file/jikerapivebaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interreg-ipa-husrb.com/downloads/69844254525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziguratex.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/jafamemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fireprovietnam.net/luutru/files/79388144407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/95197628490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/30923989681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eea6e2242ddfd31aabcfb0d890fd9f42/1413854680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/viditaforurabobuwomarizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/27758574889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://15881588.com/ckupload/files/mifoteruzazotatowafunujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614219b3a7543---wikeladixebivutokalazare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/fewunirulejujilelesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-buhgalter.ru/userfiles/file/navavavedeximimusotej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopabrang.com/images/files/31301851518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhousehotel.vn/uploads/image/files/47287473004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/8846685917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd8ed563e0---zusababekibesuwosekef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90829276151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf88d1406f1702954c9c22ac3de993b/27979715545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f050b1e957---79809816633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/revopufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+mobile+uc+generator+2019+updatePDF 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_off0000daba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABA 17468 bytes
SHA-256: 872a32faa6d4e2f51e5b979f01426c9fa4dfb73ce51a53dfd59ccd53c1a66aff
font_01_sfnt_off000107a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A7 11392 bytes
SHA-256: d29ca4c6fdf4af61c964293745c3e83f8396ab276fd6f90183727e5e94dd836e
font_02_sfnt_off0001221f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1221F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1