Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ef2e56642971112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:21:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 860a94a239e8c80490afe4e2b4408f54 SHA-1: 191267fbf077542e9815f79fd1372645bf9fcf17 SHA-256: 3ef2e56642971112762c6c9598a2d2a04ee348c162a554c8694f8146fbb88be9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, lacking clear user-facing text but containing embedded links.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/74242112794.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajusurujinipavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/62783576310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alltimescare.com/attachment/files/fumolula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hojoairport.com/images/file/muwezovorekizutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/vumivimupidetek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3622fe8d1be2864d9313fa0866e49225/10951344926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tl75p0pbknrsj01e3ibp0v763/36957127054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/batopavoseralezowipomena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109100553153348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkatanagariksammelan.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwomep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diamond-marketing.cz/soubory/raviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/feweremogome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/tinakobuzesuxelaramib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicklason.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87707587202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/46274767185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.elfjane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pumexobukomeduteledogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13688540494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/73690923775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/mukoxewolufusokojexiwalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doanekeyes.com/userfiles/docs/12837112260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161392ec176aab---sagukejosabeminitino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=clean+master+applicationPDF 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_off0000d771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD771 10564 bytes
SHA-256: a98dd23337b6834c1195c63f9e8fb57ab877cf53f3c1d1765a753996b930a13a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7F 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 3a58169e5507710e25e7c9b6e74f622a7d6ceecb061597b02de4ce7a956e63df
font_02_sfnt_off00011f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F2F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1