Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fd5bbdcf132b088…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-08-20 08:55:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 3da412710927fdfc441ac6c415e3a309 SHA-1: 95f486d0061c363c6ad2fd4c6a45f494b5dd6907 SHA-256: 3fd5bbdcf132b08880d9ebeab60475ba7d46a2dcf31de4283cb609ff68fc52dc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are common in spearphishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+calculate+cm2 PDF link annotation
    • https://mayersoffice.com/userfiles/file/sabazunofal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/rufawexekatukutave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.humillacionyestrella.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xowologalanojudukiwaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8a192c0c27bbf691be4cef8b5982080/6182797659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/85736553053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandweeramsterdamamstellanden.nl/userfiles/file/migilexuxevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/58224138978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--82cac8d3ajrc0gd0bo4a7nf3qg.com/userfiles/files/31178313267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/gajufipoxuzokisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvientantao.com/img_duhoc/files/9433573591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nd1k3lf6qnsh4cs1rtnl8qj716/nokobanatika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///83042051605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53a5665a70---sowebasanixivikibufixideg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210710091418_swp5s5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021071304515918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609820ccbbfa5---vazezurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/jeroxawidiwuvivaxomoxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6q4r4n6lt10oh77ar4k9bi7690/46136356613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118bd3f6bd22---pusakogetutawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc4ea550ed---jobufinonekesonekotade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3877902a3---8605935873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nisowasaguvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/64915137408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3d7b7b3469---kaguz.pdfIn 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://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_off0000ca34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA34 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24B 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 394cf4b52c4430ec275256f67c3160228ad01fd80fd9a3c1f86b0487065ac7c7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA40 16200 bytes
SHA-256: 1819fb69c8f94e8563a798c3f8c891a43a3b66a0b2ff76c65e7147706538b984