Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dbf85944823d3c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-07-17 01:11:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 53fd5aca6d40bfb34c505f0176f091e6 SHA-1: 1ab09871bca4d7856145e973fc6b71e1d0a8a745 SHA-256: 3dbf85944823d3c71064350a5e922d8e43e1209b13c7761fa3bef86c05bd3808
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, a common tactic for distributing malicious payloads. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method used to evade initial security scans. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm suggest it's part of a phishing or malware distribution chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9800

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/6577405553.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/lezasuzisijupudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otczenacts.com/media/files/6746023343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083496fda2e3---10368937267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a39b2e5de0---35534100225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/monapewizikifozimite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/simexabamalelikabogotato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/11795802919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b918c37e67---wavufiwomaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f08ba57696---josufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuzizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ravalatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a444ef76a66---75876764604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/jamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/44385821595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/038ghjbpek9eu7i8r1otjbs4h4/99692474941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/nafesasonel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kripasec.com/userfiles/file/jozetonuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947b58dbf7d---mamowejop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6r5skq0865hk1k94lerfk77r1/2044029024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0460a7c9a---98031332401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/93110940911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7c23e2bdab---susanuzemizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6u31l9ut9qp73as31len878ji/tefavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/27529336805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/917b279151c048510246c9f730e1ad71/43618754423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+open+a+secured+pdf+file+without+passwordPDF 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_off00011652.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11652 10892 bytes
SHA-256: a16dd8851ffb32bbda74240a22bb6c4b02328286000648b10461467aaaec4b87
font_01_sfnt_off00012f7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001478e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1478E 18936 bytes
SHA-256: 71996930859e7394238528517221711308596c98862e63bf931445b3eb3d2d17