Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3ce54e9646cf2e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b54243c630004588739187f46e4122f9 SHA-1: b947f753dc86ae08a5960700f6114c036f677e9d SHA-256: b3ce54e9646cf2e75450304f16d25887f8c9708c68b1dee6a270d8bd8f24dab8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging JavaScript for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+voice+accessibility+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/73279325094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374e8bd9761---lamijivazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/zakafopodosava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/23549429554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/12359846841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134db85b0159---xisajenijuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detectiveoffice.net/userfiles/file/99600638851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/74443047770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319fd155630---42834121473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efcc505c293bf854ddebbb5b066a82aa/fenidobopolexorudasipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/55123901153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://self119.net/upload/userfiles/2021/09/files/210906155357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cncforginghammer.com/d/files/sufivufakalebad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130d50e6e92e---kitegufuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19284208713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnnjhansi.com/userfiles/file/tubokezesepitogodajima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4720f856493af2f06dbff2fb54f14553/gonojemugixawopikokinok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snabsz.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/winaraninatupisubeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/xexoxilukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjiangchem.com/upload/files/72946618057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2446665a.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62166938039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-label.com/upload/files/98603634155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringladies.cz/userfiles/ginujejonerovilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/bokabajiso.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_off0000e879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE879 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001008b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008B 17440 bytes
SHA-256: 171aa3fded2f3073e41b14066d7a9119adf5c27062eba4eb441f6c1c226d3c7e
font_02_sfnt_off00012db6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DB6 10968 bytes
SHA-256: d3d4eabb28149aba892ff32cad99114d18ea87beb53bbe43903b0a2c278d799f