Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f8088640c3be68f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a175ff16220339dcb4a54dd0a5f2942e SHA-1: 0211f60238909d4259dfd8a902fe402d1c822008 SHA-256: 3f8088640c3be68f713e5d17da26704f67e9320da48b99ca147b9b6aa16cb9e5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'Download Now' lure further supports this, indicating the document's purpose is to trick the user into downloading a malicious file. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kozszemle.hu/uploads/files/sipozogufogokirerekex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318038efb45---26569187466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duef.ru/public/file/kojulatanasuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/temazexujokexiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupepavatipelomowerid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://b40555.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/padutezaxezubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130f16b7c430---58322779590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitperu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48619199784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://varida-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vexevebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladychief.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b035c6caa88737c5231a7c1fd8323153/xajapibixuzopiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cdaab58bff---91424599390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloodfaces.de/attachment/file/nabesujefala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hygradeinsulators.com/images/uploads/file/samasusas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1arbfjoe3bzh.xn--p1ai/data/files/migitelotakix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bongkartuantakur.com/contents/files/gapixazoliteget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gonguyenkhoi.vn/upload/files/nejepezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sedaciesupravy.sk/media/file/sujixaxinaderilofopobun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/zawudotisot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fertilizerproductionprocess.com/d/files/96890801387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gezalamobowadunilomezub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138eacde96e1---14000202736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/74834870119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/163155404849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gta+latest+version+apkPDF 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_off0000da3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3B 17996 bytes
SHA-256: 08925898742530061b8f13a0181068f2eeb93fe4712a2f56e0249576345c71fe
font_01_sfnt_off00010937.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10937 10440 bytes
SHA-256: e6bd5f56835dc79026f0883e8506a97e72548d50a49f21c3f02373ef67bc26ca
font_02_sfnt_off0001210f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1210F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1