Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eb73481b5c3a1c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 23:54:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 80ae4d9188e5eeca4c60c12adb53a95b SHA-1: 60ca41606e7ef454316372658379bfe18f4efc36 SHA-256: 3eb73481b5c3a1c646b001ecd6559b4eed8a4cbd50387db2b29730eac5fe709a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards the distribution of malicious content or phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/2623847635.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://archissimo.eu/userfiles/files/govofixalajixamazuzosuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/kizowofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychaybocaocap.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/bopufilafakokuloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeff205e9cc---mipafalavirozazimoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruhmann-elektrotechnik.at/jowixajuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/49505644763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narnivet.com/userfiles/files/65279947116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coronado1977.com/clients/54390/File/93541742785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffc6272c03---8311178829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/83833867082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b77d6cf2aa8---wuxexoxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/76872246824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/5831713005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/remapasebanutimoxedege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608155c982216---35225028122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/fetirokapaloran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wills.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e7e0a7ddb48f5276ecf19037dc460b8/xisikazodibagatadiluji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raffaelecavazzoni.com/userfiles/files/dosopitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3de4750d87740d1a3f9f2620e5e6c3c7/papora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/18067624828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098ea2b4e263---1834662018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/68069039141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dj-venci.com/uploads/pages/files/19221218402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=linux+multithreading+interview+questions+pdfPDF 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_off00010b47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B47 18332 bytes
SHA-256: e054e3fe9b969f782f1089336ddee3caf639d54201cc6103c6c6b773c200fa00
font_01_sfnt_off00013b4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B4F 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 356ac4780644d607902b7b12dabb5471870c62d47e10defe5adf13dfb760d425
font_02_sfnt_off0001557d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1557D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1