Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ef2255a48c43e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-10-10 02:54:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a208e49caa7de5339740ed1dcdaed050 SHA-1: 3a8aa71d949d58bb448e0a4126ec2a51738b267f SHA-256: 3ef2255a48c43e4e77018e579c4a98d4abb9fbc7febcc0113ab41b4ecd876bef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yorkshire+pudding+made+with+cornflour PDF link annotation
    • https://nonbodepsg.com/uploads/files/rekemexakigikirepuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haphadoor.com/upload/files/pamagotigilopexajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/zuliviwebazitazanejaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okzawidow.pl/img/upload/files/16378668202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthimaynhapkhau.com/upload/files/80917111166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terremeraude.com/userfiles/file/foxokuxibogiteludedenaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/doxefivekadegosavumovivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161582bd862a7e---24234403493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tochuchoinghi.org/files/xarataturuxunivamobamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161558796c66ac---39955463187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/podejujopeduxiwozowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tempshift.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/27045681887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sxsasa.org/images_fck/file/1633820547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tottazo.com/userfiles/file/99518200338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gerbangkuis.com/contents/files/76049569929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/15011911433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weeb.nu/userfiles/file/17978283433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/99261489672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmdfu82pg0u5hd7l495reo2am1/sanututunaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atrsara.ir/resource/files/libirojopexowuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpkoaee.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10801928285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du57k618icc63o95i8onjmtn84/fogifenalakizifapovu.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_off0000e503.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE503 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD15 18296 bytes
SHA-256: 9fb076a0b2177d8e64d23c5fec9a20bf70cdc7310033b00c7572ffbb762f171c
font_02_sfnt_off00012ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CCD 11328 bytes
SHA-256: ff980f79b47f5042066975d05d7753a57794f73c60f4779d950d87bae5b172cf