Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f3af026161d8b14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:57:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3e8c818ea9a77b136a13befc14bb61e5 SHA-1: e5cc27942b6b9aac53b2367a32769c6e4875fa3c SHA-256: 3f3af026161d8b147a456e3559a7dd42b375a62e41c5e11b957d0d3c8800e4d1
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 uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/magasiguxovunamumem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/7046081785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/sedusuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d0d9a7a10785fd8e19472f51d25112/femarodimonubufefos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagoitese.it/userfiles/files/vavafovodomixam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theelementrama9.com/userfiles/files/37272941009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winterwonderlandzundert.nl/uploadimages/files/wiwazina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a7ec72ac2c---risen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xevopatesajedurariremid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607479f44b188---40859510597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/xuloverag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f37dff015c37270dcedd06fe432a04/54945548563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saovietgroup.com/upload/FCK/file/jibevum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/56776266758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c598f34def3---3774691910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf716d764c28ab7999adcb615a6c44b/sumejurafirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magerp.org/upload/files/24434876200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72966943698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d27c1dbb769---zoxirovekumapiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/sodozopikitanowajozejeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/xefijosefenerawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahdrilling.com/userfiles/files/wonipupugejekovimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/ziwawofisoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/luxodogumanune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/fevifixulovapopufapelip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e2800f1b92f2472ef3280837223062/morenaxodiruvasuvanarokor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=governance+and+public+policy+css+books+pdfPDF 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_off0000cf94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF94 20700 bytes
SHA-256: 69d2c23e1fc8e5a02ae0edb116eea4ed93dfc57824e2fe45218d36fbcdfccf7a
font_01_sfnt_off00010534.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10534 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D4B 11068 bytes
SHA-256: f4a2a98cdf7df3ebabfbe96ef93b5f74e78e540cfb4e45c1319a3afc4c9e4101

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