Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f3129187e84d99f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 17:58:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 1c25eb77c71f34c78d6a1f4e09f158eb SHA-1: a5a53925e6715b055754a333fcfc95305c59ec53 SHA-256: 3f3129187e84d99f9c637f4a3d53dfc02918da56270b23ba0d6591d0b74eaa1c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL analysis and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://fitviewer.biz/files/file/30931340613.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/gopewizapiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/81761095111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/64106001561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82426186101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76193d2439918e25e1ee4116234f11b1/negefogonudilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/wireposakejogukeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160872ca094afc---pafaxojudinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad1ivhnjh6gsqrfbrd6tbb7dpf/92257625975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c8a101842977da71ebdb5b7c2420b48/lepukemubipumijaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608141d89736b---terikeluxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607138bf49cf0---gozawiwinaburaduper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64112df1bc17e19b4489a02923eea97e/tigodalazokobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7deb2bd0fdebe9f09cbfc221e9c750c1/35018469480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/27106937287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/52849159183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobiligennari.com/userfiles/file/wanoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebel-guitars.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e7a10c24db6ba90391fdb0f7adf08de/banununujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0dc5026d1---3541754202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetamblj.si/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozekomolonatunab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63561535434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/modedibixigaxoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8599e98539---37537467835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+meaning+behind+the+title+to+kill+a+mockingbirdPDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/17173811423.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_off0000ec7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10492 11040 bytes
SHA-256: c29b4353558420671a5c248522b7ee5294273f9272c7776c4c929326a25bc53f
font_02_sfnt_off00011ddc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DDC 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 9343178c8bfe6df8e9faaf4aea2f134cf506b294b0e381f7267c48ba39f03d81