Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fae094a0e4f5a56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-12 14:24:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 67389d25bac80f6d245ca12cd46f246a SHA-1: 5f0095d83992e3f5e4ede8543fcd3d62b0c8e896 SHA-256: 3fae094a0e4f5a56e15436b2a146b5f19d7dfbab70e122bb99dd41699167aaed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The embedded URLs like 'https://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skills+in+mathematics+arihant+algebra+pdf' likely redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the overall heuristic firings indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=skills+in+mathematics+arihant+algebra+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lawpropertyconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qtc3kjeep0l9jtlk6e3fr3rtjm/39832881514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/zifegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/56804845910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/nedilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn59989afd02rfr9r2bp4sm2uh/verugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f58efc6c4e5752b3afd26d70d49e13b/nanomakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40d5ce1faef643920f8d68c409189c82/52339242558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cec-intl.ru/app/webroot/files/file/suvosare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be649dd617b79b3c406a09f2a73e2ed8/girodoluwegadog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/58065195818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/robane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6oh76dft4jp254j16595ks0aj/94536073733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa5d91f12b---rivarixebezog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01cd9a11d35dc69e5633dd69b69564ed/85770871031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA65 5556 bytes
SHA-256: ccce9c4324e7c1fca4fdc460a0e2f1c1f7cf1accd9a9a9782163ecdb0d51931a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED01 10028 bytes
SHA-256: b09ca99c767ad50596ec1209bd9d793cbd953e4d28638a13d83090b4e73d6582
font_02_sfnt_off00010f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F68 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3