Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e9429511e904e2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 15:31:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 465471b154536c7895f1e9520a4e7fcd SHA-1: 4def53adf02487848ceb82cab969ab3a967ecb1f SHA-256: 3e9429511e904e2d0d4a697db598388fb0c00c038803324633385e566cb22c3d
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 websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of techniques used to exploit users and deliver secondary payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://avesta-hmora.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/zovuwevokiwekasorufepiju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/94194759555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130eba51fac6---92989146754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gucaoyun.com/uploads/file/080453002149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/76880224441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isagrinio.gr/userfiles/2979977751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centrosanmarco.eu/img/news/files/gidawaxowufukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis94.fr/img/pics/files/kopumategimububudaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innobiztour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_17098EAC3A572613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvolodin.ru/upload/file/nirizugunutulupeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5348115271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/40109680586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/xumidusidunugapolufopodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads/files/202109081554152595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55971367857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/3276168410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/49578631495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c3c2d7843---66680036063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/batimiwudowalisogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/tipili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a98d14af6bae65b55980897524efd39/tupotefibopukowezasimala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memulukedufigowudumela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/16164166579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210908040700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svb-volleyball.de/userfiles/file/44420842851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelamadeustorino.com/userfiles/files/45026071851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.speeddating.lt/speeddating/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17264127462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=roller+coaster+tycoon+touch+hackPDF 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_off0000bdf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD605 15220 bytes
SHA-256: 2bbe9d0fff55d0e778a5fec530ee518b1d1ca81cc346bf51f1cb0571cf9a5be6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fca9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA9 10588 bytes
SHA-256: da73968992a734b8455eb63c5d3384b8df6393311dd99833b148058955903c7d