Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3df54179542a3855…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-09-04 21:35:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cf92a36345cffd6b678f3d5c406bd203 SHA-1: a3726e68be9d3f1fa22ffd8629421c26f11e1129 SHA-256: 3df54179542a3855f12b17e4c38dee815f7ddc967536d394dfdee55b59c6d69c
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal malformed streams and a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs likely serve as lures to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://aptwash.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/65404930704.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inprovitmexico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52511197018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/157200028260bddf587ef65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/zasomilajorexesalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d1b58a0fef5d25bbf8fdbdab2424d04/89502406118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b748c46f6b2---kadapuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceandsecure.com/uploads/userfiles/file/67438793375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dfc69b87b632154defed22272fa6d3d/mejesonebapeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davebakeragency.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/503fcfc8f4ec426f8206c83ccf5e5730/49406608220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h0i66i65rs42gjp5l11vdqval5/nojorovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/gabenamivakotuxivevuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/rejifufopuronegipufinuvap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210502220248439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/matopisaboxedusidonasuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/jajumunixinanujam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colline-eternelle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rukekopakudamikek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd05ae0a51---mogaxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zdravotechnika.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gusabagofiboxeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9593a4dd1c52d7e1b36ce44b70356cd2/40158015595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulamanis.com/contents/files/fenemazuxalejarixove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/54321715866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2r-auto.com/uploadfiles/file/2021072512115973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkexim.ru/imgeditor/file/9097488465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valdhans.cz/userfiles/file/tojog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=pm+restaurant+menu+pdfPDF 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_off0000c75e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC75E 10504 bytes
SHA-256: ec81879ccb98a5855af14cdc8d4643efb628d056eea2944c2bfaa1bc638338ff
font_01_sfnt_off0000df39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF39 17916 bytes
SHA-256: 89aec296de8c133cbceff8748c3ded768fefdfe842d634df90c8caff41a4951c
font_02_sfnt_off00010cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1