Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f5e308ae4ca6e25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:33:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e458545a04823bb1c270112d9b81b8c0 SHA-1: 0fc59ae9303b310eabfbc7a006ec620d5a4a456c SHA-256: 3f5e308ae4ca6e2546ed1ff7834de77c71f004e3be5e1250a8d20290f3bbc18f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to external sites via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/ In PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/mifemusagozimexadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d26d5b3c25668a29fbfac2232814b55/xanasanewexumodajavat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://innovativallatgyogyszer.hu/fileok/file/polunefivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b354ff7f1a2---vadudewubuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nikkenj.com/userfiles/file/lojafiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startent.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/65674241320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb59438c620---meribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/31152482186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/63289109465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/77986071203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/44092407325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/24123541486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3gqec0mqj8j7023uihe03hrj0/lonaxera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0a724d02a0---5762459458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lukoilmarine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xamitatorudifanejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents//files/pupoxiweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samtle.net/ckupload/files/moguvovavow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qetdv74n8qge4qfgdkilvtud23/vuxefutetabifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/9752158874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrrc.heart.net.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/1767133323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snp-ent.com/files/fckeditor/file/912637041612636245d6b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f09c6cd17c2---pigomubigufijapixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760a422f0b0---82987927326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clarkfamilybuilders.com/home/clark/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zelaxozezajikenudejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=travelers+cheque+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_off0000c9c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9C1 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 0206c53c1fbf13c1c0edb08715b664a6dd9cb2cc66153434d0459df27ed42e48
font_01_sfnt_off0000f881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF881 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11098 10732 bytes
SHA-256: cb50bc3efdc7b8ee555414a82b6a28012a58067c3809d9701dba1d38f0f57d9c