Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3a6ce1d28edf8d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 21:58:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9c1cdb8ba61c1a92c1282e9aa98bef40 SHA-1: a688490c41f256eb7ddf91982eba25b12dfd3a34 SHA-256: b3a6ce1d28edf8d4abbb71f830bc99687cf36a96cdb21c3e2d5c2ab16ab53f30
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to other PDF files, many hosted on domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these linked documents. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=u+dictionary+magic+translation PDF link annotation
    • https://ijp2.com/contents/files/gomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/43604844116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blgjad.com/upload/files/86936447062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/975d71332ff7e922f14e243809a9b277/48843846775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/34385574061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/96620924268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcyy88.com/userfiles/file/2021091023004773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/lujiwoxomotodanifubularit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-businessplan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/zogikosudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trackls.com/application/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36082643705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageddfjtjgrade.pretty-match.com/upload/files/18635654680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/62807248879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagamimpi.org/contents/files/65247994156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613131411d421---sawulovuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundainhapkhau.net/upload/files/52780995133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciabergua.com/userfiles/files/zifaloso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/fotumojetagixikol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/gunobolijarovitotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613798e0c3fc8---36715971917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c5a3f3a061---resulamujirubomagarinijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/20487103885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-klinika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubojej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/81724494174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hippocratio.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazopibejudirodorogidopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/butituritidurisurati.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_off0000d0b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B8 17288 bytes
SHA-256: ba96e7cab77e143fe01d76a4c14a842bcddb889182309a1671d5b483d1143185
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD75 10704 bytes
SHA-256: d6c57822efdc9466017e58c06a30e846c268db4e5075fe3c2b73d0651ab495e7
font_02_sfnt_off000115cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1