Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3db4b8d5f967e6b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 21:13:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b874df040349da85016ff418a244bab7 SHA-1: 0163afc031a110719ec5661ae184c334cd384d40 SHA-256: 3db4b8d5f967e6b902a90d27c90c667970214823fbb9318362c2aa50b469e6c2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading harmful content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cbse+class+12+maths+question+paper+2013+solved+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://doktor-okonski.pl/uploadimg/file/wekujuzubopazod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/kidob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/gewagiwofavuwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a232cd03a4d---62894004760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129d9678b078---gujadore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fefb0166e5a2a8de3e2273e7a6ad87a7/61554155143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80520775661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiohrestomatiya.ru/content/file/firevegilosedoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.forteks.com.br/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/benogubipupajonozavero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/575397109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607573d265ea7---gozixinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/707b72f87a6e3bdc973f9748df96b68d/24751462918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/patekupobadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bmo-agencement.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/631194843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/36192088451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuerst-architects.com/uploads/file/sirajoluvekopine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/86140279939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meuble-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/56281164921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolionsfarm.it/userfiles/files/pavunijidafopesona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838a62b29c0cca93a2ed7c3cb6968bba/refujulonolawipemozavobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vresponse.net/userfiles/file/60150794334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nikutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161006dfcaa09f---54291915529.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_off0000e58f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fda1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA1 17644 bytes
SHA-256: bf7b4763fbf5a45d42a1b4035a028c3d151e503a5022373f7d61ae1b7eba27e4
font_02_sfnt_off00012afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AFC 11920 bytes
SHA-256: 03168868ec2b1da67647daedc1dfc045d0a9bd77b91ced5f83f6e020314de2e4