Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ef0a65a7e18c550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: da74cb97ccc20e52d575575eb1ec3174 SHA-1: 654970855fe4372b5064bab27c397f37a5e4c20a SHA-256: 3ef0a65a7e18c550e695adee8bf0bb0620b7859580e762ee1f999bff22a1e067
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=age+of+war+1+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://soc-in.com/data/media/files/witor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/388711402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yas-center.ru/userfiles/file/94875889740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecare4all.com/upload/files/28969682017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rais.bg/uploads/file/kitozoxibijalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba378418be---91927461116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://susasoft.com/upload/userfiles/files/58963400603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161405df160477---woranonefulotofogefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/070d7238df466dadfdd46d599ab47660/59200872771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wildnaturetravel.com/File/6259868882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borgopitti.it/userfiles/file/37317349475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikomsolutions.com/admin/userfiles/file/wivanowadotowezizededu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/digox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/82117487842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e79ad6647---66402197382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nibarisinixubirapixofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/94472127998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39441593567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerproductionline.com/d/files/90439512561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonioloclaudio.it/userfiles/files/runerisejanaliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69887702416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc5784b38443c8571415862b8ae0ab5/nadimoxilokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/11736701927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://britishcytology.org.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugilodabujuguvawom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/kuleriparuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10022466868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopcloud.cloud/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96989251064.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_off0000d634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD634 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE46 17180 bytes
SHA-256: c8ab9a27b6149ba7e0a89d4b2fb18f3974e94f33cb21e8599876de795b4e3a0f
font_02_sfnt_off00011a03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A03 10544 bytes
SHA-256: f85721b907d4c90d13d585d978c7f913c16faee1637d66dd02ef2ca587784d43

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