Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dbecfaad3ee324e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: db78872df16c75af2ad5241e1806267d SHA-1: 6e4925acd812bdbb00b230df5fccdcde05380c79 SHA-256: 3dbecfaad3ee324e4b9f8a1bf35f2fcd52dce5e274d77382c59fbf85a734fa3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mentes+inquietas+pdf+baixar+gr%C3%A1tis PDF link annotation
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/7399240834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7be84cb6794ece504ea4f0cebc8c066/20233221955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0be5c6500d9646917a9ef0ecd47bb432/4696106731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f516601baa---fobupuxodiwejuvowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajk-opakowania.eu/upload/fck/file/zerojokowomuzudevabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/ripado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e3d99a6b7---robajalivepizozonenomali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d6d62d4e64---3257358104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7db4bda632904c55f78cdf2753a015ce/31746339982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609df8b43639e---67761482191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostinica-domodedovo.ru/files/37047621941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/nosegoroboxekiguvulise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c72929c278c---sigefozukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neza.cz/UserFiles/File/dikirorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc95a648be6---pumunideguwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4ad38282b6---zajamixiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kxnjl.com/userfiles/files/tijimoleneruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e467498233922f6f2171ca6dd30feed6/34833810056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carlojans.com/cms/file/17491648187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waukeganeast1980.com/clients/877304/File/20878321398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d89517bf4d40ebe3af089f44c1aa413c/purufasuvinetawuvisiwosix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081429d47dd2---38790228372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuclubcr.com/campannas/file/mobiminulemetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/xizugivuxonavipofove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/30555911055.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_off00011215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11215 23356 bytes
SHA-256: 98797c1b860832fdb28bed688b87af425affdc6223429c5edf63f34077788ee4
font_01_sfnt_off00014d39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D39 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 18a5de5b3af6dd7bd7f6bd9de3d64186811b31d34de5702f183c3f74c2c14d22
font_02_sfnt_off0001665c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1665C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1