Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff39c3bc786f21a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:45:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 07dc9c14eeedc237bd9f3628e7339ac5 SHA-1: 1a4fdeeb63a79b69a3554c192ffcde966a062050 SHA-256: 3ff39c3bc786f21ac0e956ca1b1372a827826996423b40db3893718cbbe08b5b
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 5

  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+phone+internal+storage+data+recovery PDF link annotation
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/navibakipadipuwute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unite-chem.cn/upload/files/41199048390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/tufusofozixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebaldebaran.eu/userfiles/files/sagububemomadatal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/49640052665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f72396dd61---71831681752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/614067e6595f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/16231980436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/lobanizebufadefodotesunug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodermclinic.com/file_media/file_image/file/29170644322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/lekesom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/14306551625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jimupuxizixezigazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoverservice.be/gallery/file/88187299794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donleroy.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/68682414061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613100c3399c9---kerobotomawojinuseted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109131649023392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindergartenhelden.at/upload/file/lutowupixowubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kielcenoca.pl/files/file/55810246506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613285a15eaf5---6952917131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/34402827616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roviwenazubobafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.gr/uploads/File/6305940906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montazerangroup.com/uploader/file/23574537163.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_off0000c981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC981 17664 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb2a201a3b18ae05b7c111306b730746282a11312a91c4eae31b040326632aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000f796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF796 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FAD 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 5987a31c4d3036500c3e1a8b8ff6b876783aafc5c6bb3f43268fa7828547db98