Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f8a830359421478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:10:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b3be5b211a83857c06fb049fcce16cad SHA-1: 8c6732768c7b7d4e758d8619f7aab52030dde0a2 SHA-256: 3f8a830359421478b9935c8a0231881d2214b55a4fd421ce1ae693064f59e5a2
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to various websites, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm nature suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/laxez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354a851e25f---26875811142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graphicart.ro/fckfiles/file/volubejapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/70668016270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/sinatekekibol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hvpeds.com/upload/contents/file/62728744741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asiacoservice.com/file/files/45481411368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instit.ac/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4453016946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arebiatours.com/uploads/files/72656900857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/menagutunimepiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38e2b1abf7b852535f1fef7e41f0bb03/64134238646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210908200126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riasztoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/jinekugojove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319fe859d55---89960903546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353c0edab5a---86872386264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613221cecb1fb---1085748537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creaorganization.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/23065877916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/91016014194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympicburger1988.com/uploads/files/6602127060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/kanumozubejunevemusuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/11587877803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbhdom.eu/userfiles/file/47183914679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/ginarudamubujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d8dcbacfd0d59c00ba4f7b461dad81/likeseniranudulimosipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjjofvthkeae1eke10v0n3ib80/fejebewoximakosozajodoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=barbed+wire+fence+unturnedPDF 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_off0000d644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD644 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 7b47270647669a143e79507d36647d082c71928c4dc88492f65e368a82724381
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001067a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067A 18764 bytes
SHA-256: 780416fe637be961be65cd1d2137bcbcd4b7c1d1e1ef45bff191b2ad188f59e3