Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f11d23ad3ac1b9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-10-02 10:18:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 1485766fc9bbc9a3ae268a313cf776eb SHA-1: bf04e0809a80f941368530b8da855bac0de9e3b8 SHA-256: 3f11d23ad3ac1b9cb20a7a43f3240b096ea04e5118daef78fb3a60d438337198
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting. Several extracted URLs point to PDF files hosted on compromised CMS uploads or suspicious domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://oshcongregation.com/userfiles/file/72052189746.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/30037784955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubforeducation.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/pudogofekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardens-spa.com/user_pict/file/pupele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/zufaxibejadugus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atvatextile.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35077392798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/1495675133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/subezimetake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jobufuluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euro-m.si/web/dokumenti/file/bolosagutovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huescalamagiaenfotos.com/userfiles/files/88257454266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://automatisme-portail-bordazzi.fr/userfiles/fichiers/72255663606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2jpug7bibv077jo1f04qlvlh/gawajimubotinomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/1623631151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bcead773ac---luxoletazesubazepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podwierzba.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1139788664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apnm.indexint.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71015662582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/xisegetulixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lustigersteirer.at/userfiles/file/gerosegekelid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologadamczak.pl/userfiles/file/46905417646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e68f3bf87---gamedefakifabevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=gentle+malayalam+meaningPDF 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_off0000b298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB298 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000caaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAAA 19092 bytes
SHA-256: 0164c58561ad9197a1f912aa84d28a3d4b91a24eea9dcdb72a8d31361cf79493
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDF 10216 bytes
SHA-256: 98626d6dfa5e9369deae469996cafe76f4300fab8c7ef7121ef887673336e7da