Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fc73e1c87416173…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:50:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 07e791e914612123b5b5b79e26471230 SHA-1: b2416146e81132e4473db3c1228b39b80a04c83b SHA-256: 3fc73e1c874161732eef315d6075de52c2968be79ab54c3ed77c3bbe379b895a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple links within a PDF document strongly suggests an attempt to lure users into clicking through to a harmful destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://divorcioconsensual.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f489643a001e80d9bc2d6a5a50dafa/birifawodet.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-18/images/files/sisifekutosuwobemixudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/gozuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b808662aa1e41f3869712dc53ac8e439/teboximav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewafefoxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapoom.com/upload/fckeditor/file/ridoroxesesawedudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://local-minicab.com/survey/userfiles/files/nedozisepugolufoxumolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13350742647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jxlmedu.com/file/files/20210727_074129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/88551281426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/nefusogon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877d134d654---fiwepimojofaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32860d11a8---8913179209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuzeyilac.com/resimler/files/fomamorul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/wejawozatazamoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents//files/fuxumujomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbcnepal.com/images/file/vobikojajeralefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albertopizzetti.it/userfiles/files/dawagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3epnpo5rascctgev306rnsn4ji/wemododeramut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tyextractor.com/d/files/79613693630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/20647491471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb27a2cf6e---5332604332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8dda9b04001e4834ca31543b1684b3b/70940200384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tizianaiberti.it/userfiles/files/30716588179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obkg36ed99rmo0lcb8holnsk6c/49895121024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=all+outfits+mario+odysseyPDF 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_off0000e3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBED 18836 bytes
SHA-256: 93b3998a54780b4e6fe0ad21911600079ac77e84200f6e060fd717eaca9bc3d1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D31 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 4547f6b096f3ecc02fb69d47af60b7320b11f1b5969df88d2afc270cf1756103