Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3d30c34ea6809a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 57dafe13578bc8babf270d6dd28cab60 SHA-1: 1556b3a1c31adeff53b584dc1d0120449bd3fe2b SHA-256: a3d30c34ea6809a1530d0c20618d14a274a2947efee69600d6b02c91f09467e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable domains, likely intended to lure users into phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://digireg.ch/upload/3625436758.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b428b63615a---2108777690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/83116202012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f660dc00cb---31709364666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/suwaliwasovuzolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bda30d802c9dead077958a07fdf3a420/428919520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/41446880470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seponimepalumezetub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c87bb1c931---93889396971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rittenhousereunion.com/clients/a/ad/ad7d26974070b67854a29702aed78614/File/mixejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a47b458512a---72262562779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9423e8cda366b1e10a326dfc346aceb6/jugoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niszczeniewaw.pl/userfiles/file/dujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/19512360137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856708a57ec---85356535193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02r983o61c7lb827ofciqfu4lv/bujino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a0d6f4b084---pubexiliparurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/56300412826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720ee3d9abc---lulijurewemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurmateng.com/contents//files/bikifun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607606aa49522---dufomesuzugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sources+of+food+contamination+pdfPDF 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_off00010b0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0D 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 4a5925216c3d657b7fff45b2ceaa20cc57e4359794dabb223cfc32860ad0bd05
font_01_sfnt_off0001388d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1388D 10908 bytes
SHA-256: dfcc83041d7f2cda271b3dca0ac72ab1786a97eeece0d2385069d652e9891b42
font_02_sfnt_off000151c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x151C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1