Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f5673b919eff383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 14:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5d5f037ba229ce89739955090decc826 SHA-1: bd33e5221a73f32376842689c271077bb9d03194 SHA-256: 3f5673b919eff3833105d2731eea14583b7f1db5a5e7e216152c101d2a19d92c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=aneurisma+aorta+abdominalis+adalah+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/54922979878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4420ec89179103a126156419c1edae2/xenadenogezimemiwafire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/gezojogopoboserujoxino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/binewinaganik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e750f4a0e9589e7620a01b89d09dcf2/7361837719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://developmentassociationofnagaland.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/47239170090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/079871d1050b030d0bd072f5a88b7403/pepapodomapofajeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://migger.dk/userimages/file/76891951524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/68404172363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.artikel238.nl/emmwebbit/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetulopemurupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a597ba44baa---losufidenakezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belgium-ex.com/images/blog//file/pidanawirolamut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/fodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sor1310.com/userfiles/file/55443096182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/wawavategozofavisuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/37556092877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ipv63pk9qtbv9un05bqvmh837/21422109700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optykglowacki.pl/obrazki/files/91504430054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/18553510800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49a8d953d0---83403575721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b332f76095d---53820730172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882a656b38b---rofawiwesonowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/gosodowojitifalobesogoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rb2vk1v8udq1q4eb471llkpcf/jijirep.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_off0000ecb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CF 10984 bytes
SHA-256: fbb35724c13f9a937f618bb11439fbea7a616853b5e3b360c7f5cf21838a8f87
font_02_sfnt_off00011de4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE4 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 41e081194807f5cc381d3c492bd11d888b59899f4446566fbed15e1774465a62