Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eaf536ebd9d8347…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 08:32:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 14be33119e8a87df0ae4c423d57fe9d4 SHA-1: 149b5c98c0f395545ca2e2905f5eb4ba56289485 SHA-256: 3eaf536ebd9d83472fd2ab3005e93176e52230a1c691fee102f758fa3d7b2fdf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external sites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jagame+thandhiram+movie+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://mamalight.net/business_school/uploads/file/jamugixorirakosoner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamitobe.ru/files/file/pasuxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/14742502388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutheapec.com/upload/FCK/file/57118184764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opsir.eu/files/file/63318691822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://curewelldiabetes.com/userfiles/file/wiridifus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.douggoodkin.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kigomunerakem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/83433287784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konakelektrik.com/userfiles/file/vuxulesujivav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/nofalejusurepiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.com/ipp/images/uploads/files/silubuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedax.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/47757780288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itchanoi.vn/uploads/news_file/65535085099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/buzinikunejelafutovisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/fusoxuludinimoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/84971218720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cfd26fed1---davuvijufigusoxowego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/637ba74e29cb2d0534e7535b28e6fe51/tunilukifetojuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/notekalovesawudegoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/26718747968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba02fe93abc7d4b6db016dedeb344f3f/81181966698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nojabokotiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE58E 17256 bytes
SHA-256: cc28bf7f8f72f7fc8aa3815d7699baab6fc2452a6e521137964e85319dd16882
font_01_sfnt_off00011249.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11249 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A60 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 75df6e93b6886e6bfa4575113dbd602934105f9d43b4663c2edd17211d78f225

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