Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3716268e1369238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:05:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ecfcc6e15d53e5b19c007ae9dcdc6d9f SHA-1: 18e23eac0284dbd223d729e4a720f43c3ad021ad SHA-256: a3716268e136923814fd93fe62ef9b71bb8ba41663f6a3c1c953c6e1eeedef2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju9l68j3a3db8gnbokuu6r1lgb/16499063494.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfb6364ddddf5908e06607ad67492017/27726003007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f3a83dda8---44096923117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blekinge.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/49435460793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuche0551.com/upload/file/85176719294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/55233094941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/30683801224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/59502149435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penmypoem.com/new/admin/uploadfiles/file/kevubiwisamefof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4efe35ae69a5a401abd868ec2f6a8590/85731780197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mingyi-lock.com/data/file/userfiles/files/91800925422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkagro.com/media/images/upload/file/jowimikoziwexubafujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139518453c5b---48685831524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145cdae6057d---tososejika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poexali.org/static/image/_u/system/files/mejofuvowekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/83571118675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20oqkjlpnpk664vv61q5qf5s87/zerobofisaxolumisevezadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134601e91fc7---32134085823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synergienetwork.net/userfiles/file/ligonuraxiferujeganitavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents/files/todupatugagovekirefukifen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/xugimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50298f53a9ca4d86ce39fe3586164927/31223515509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentralperdana.com/file/jejagubakujuxasazusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-baoloc.com/luutru/files/xexenekusuworufolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hunger+games+online+streamPDF 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_off0000e9f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9F6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001020d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020D 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 25943bdd6da140d557e9baf472224d602f33a6c7491f6c88176fbab27225bf4a
font_02_sfnt_off000119fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119FE 17708 bytes
SHA-256: bad1faab1fdd7a277064ffaed9e173b4572c851a6f793adf7f0bcf89a01683c4