Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ef69e82282c6b57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.7 KB Created: 2021-07-17 22:12:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6109d46eb919585d382bb2a5ad753304 SHA-1: 5febc5edc50c784a2652b6577b78d731bfde1f28 SHA-256: 3ef69e82282c6b5755e2b6aeb8bc634dfabaddcaccf13b2df5d0e58204025bbd
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF, as confirmed by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, likely intended to trick users into downloading malicious payloads. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, and the PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests links to compromised WordPress upload storage. The presence of embedded URLs and the SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON heuristic further support a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/56956884394.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/xuxagame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c91882629cfcd7424b280b71d0c2ee9d/pofifurivasidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r75s6436u2maqae679vhk801q4/85076808792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indee-r.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9a93fef78bc3475fc3b75ef67528839/zarudipalenezidasedofemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160707e7f59842---93765648441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4rdpofnlorga5pce2uut9fgal/51952049610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.climatisur.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73312212850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nwatchonline.net/userfiles/file/37209202207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0mbrke5ped065v3b93p8aiu6l/dakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbtele.com/en/cache/fck_files/file/67601636947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj9un9s8vdf4id2h8togt7q812/maxekujexosolivafekufuwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/mugozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/wesela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castanienfamily.com/clients/74558/File/wunoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/31795322212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a074003fad8---49410483564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1uirtnodh95lrtapr808ctt010/15083225713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160737c389b46a---30956724517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketdoanbus.com/webroot/img/files/gorareguwodisipasozevowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/13918506749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f96240810ed515e00fb1414d61480ca/xuboxijewexepimojuxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ae54c5a2c9dd1317deed1b96f7227a5/73639653870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starrsgazette.com/admin/images/file/tepurojapatoxuwixutuzaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=total+addressable+market+template+pptPDF 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_off000101c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000119db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119DB 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 7dbce32825c6ae975dcd6180e2adc16e63cd93252eca256a0ea3e6b9c74f271a
font_02_sfnt_off000131be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131BE 16832 bytes
SHA-256: 2dbd80a9fe99d11d176f4d0993a553df3b9ac01448551cc02762281fd8e4c5ac