Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e603eedcf63f373…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.0 KB Created: 2021-07-23 13:05:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: a477920e4e5a6bb6f119542dc477c0fa SHA-1: 5fc38bb046a9e77bac215a39d6327db0f462f72c SHA-256: 3e603eedcf63f37364d1785a5d6511e34943b54dff10cf3d770aa126654ad40f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Multiple URLs point to PDFs hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/ribopadokoganaxiru.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/14490209538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/1373918728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1984wnhs.com/clients/2/25/250e0aaa51dad033202e6c34d8602b4d/File/nerodevumelobuxamoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c85e933f4ab---lijulabebegekanifaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c59d3f740---govelafekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cualuoihoanmy.com/uploads/userfiles/file/75340944127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mukonuzijugekawaralagoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52e17fcc594b198e26f69ef396639c1/40788978055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-francophone.com/userfiles/file/63658592775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/11344241798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/46492607640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aab6f8cb2d578674eee93a74e8d7301f/4441836526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0cc0980d4a02c32191f337ac61c030f/nigimakoguwipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d49fb9826---vebuvosogupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/50865092931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udruga-invalida.hr/files/75691575578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfnmdg.com/upfolder/e/files/20210626023818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/37287788143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1626519429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/448226ba0c4872afef9788ad2386972f/jowixipodunaxuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qfevnamtah31vb70nh8ar1nrrt/46152950350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.ch/upload/file/livimiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/87005154828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometry+hots+questions+for+class+10PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1D 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 1dcf1192f2fc955e2b380fa4a4d6704f1979e4f9ffa17e7a34ed11d07f2bb613
font_01_sfnt_off0001252a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252A 18676 bytes
SHA-256: 2529c47d9591f9871752a2a65beb26da0046bf11d4f15ca43263fa1c6d2f1bc5
font_02_sfnt_off00015751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15751 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 450eea5fc67953cc3bdc764260aa6f1739571c17331c9588074966c3dbef4c6c
font_03_sfnt_off00016c86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16C86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1