Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e4d510ae0eb3952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-29 13:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c00faca5d7511d72c7dcdaac0a148d1a SHA-1: 6150134dd5c0bf5c69563b59b4f1c4e4f35d4937 SHA-256: 3e4d510ae0eb395243597fabcd4e42da0ab905cfe418d43957de41720256cdf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or other unknown hosts, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a6a51c6267d9cdf83ce2032c76559ab/lalanorevom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89185134798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/noxodomijidenipudesuvok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/gevotawonusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e55a640681---tokowared.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/gibuviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94910bfe81ea833104712d824cff457e/kojomizekituna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scbczy.cn/up_files/file/20210616_145121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffe1f11243e0752ed2e662ac5333ff65/xivukejalofugedez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/61748353165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/jafadekepokigelubela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centromp.it/userfiles/files/62079487764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prieur-equipement.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kotozujomelivavibida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/68287424878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajodigabululaguta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b53b36fa8---rezosodexeligoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochi-riba.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46198591092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hayatteknoloji.com/webimage/file/33814753989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/71793648060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607244f2b1678---3230696137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2a8377bb0---51584761973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c37c13711d247b82e9a773a04f94519/71679019859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edcasys.com/ci/userfiles/files/mudajagemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/lenexepepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tabela+para+torneio+de+futsal+com+6+timesPDF 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_off0000f4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010cc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CC3 19056 bytes
SHA-256: 57d4e5b2746b8338bd816677a7f9b500ae7011450e1c63cd0a94527b3c117c0d
font_02_sfnt_off00013b54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B54 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 6cdc329051357641e612d729a9610c0550f24ab8cd7554ea6dfd491a90498d8c