Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ea349bf6212e92d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-08-20 14:49:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 52dd5fdccd8ac9a7631db1e764e0cad7 SHA-1: 9bc1254a7cd4a9cd66f48e24319e563dffcea340 SHA-256: 3ea349bf6212e92d7e3f881cd075734601f5754d92dea6f094868a6a9a9f7956
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature suggest an attempt to lure users to external sites, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8acac2d20080d79176247982e8169d8/giwoxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/07/file/202107300343057721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20df7e8ca0---11842801596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160eca7b168e8f---tamexokam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bf3b730d6---piwuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57468160109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c4c1a8d820199b10bf2ebd754e5ce7d/romefubenageleti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbm-mova.by/images_from_html_editor/file/4686422567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/waxidakozegozabesav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empylean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vf11u2ujdpbl58m3od71edf69u/gudunesipagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncvpte.in/userfiles/file/49093719539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2rv5ccf4jjq3n6uuq6rqk1k5ge/tasapepujari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlaamspatientenplatform.be/_plugin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xovomuribifomatigogadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b66ac6a2197---gonejugogepanumarup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apteka-wratislavia.pl/halatecza/userfiles/file/70538226450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twilaw.com/files/files/94150758190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f02b89d9b78d601d1ae8f035ce5a41a/rusinizinirujotokixela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amy-tsai.com/images_express/userfiles/files/5053116110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/14478257333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerathai.com/image/upload/File/16948572337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c47381c571---mobobebaxodabazopato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160711ba41d6cf---kudet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/29602164801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dihybrid+cross+punnett+square+worksheet+answersPDF 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_off0000bc92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A9 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 4155098d469f602c86143c5848c1d7188654d07765ef7f501b62f46862f3a121
font_02_sfnt_off0000eea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA2 16052 bytes
SHA-256: 2d93a16c35851e9914cd303d26b9a781eefec4ab77799db4d75e33dd75d33367