Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3d39aaa065e3c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 02:59:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 32e4b89efdf99d4b920689f21eb09480 SHA-1: 7e041ea6c3765ea97d014b7fe41dc03a75c8b594 SHA-256: b3d39aaa065e3c90921c8adc2d751fdc924d4bbce287d44c7001cbb894055d83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to lure users into clicking malicious links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+khloe+married+to+tristan PDF link annotation
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/vikeraxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/rigizebunonaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5f81d64f0162d4ef1629e46a8773681/weromokedumanele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/tapafojuvub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c656a42cf22a433b67b498fad0383030/96837269686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/wutomefoduwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/60653594624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce1c4a45f3---duviwokululi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/optrtuamr1l54k26o279upm557/wubosiliwijezupezoximef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/90577384544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents//files/25138084137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/90761108434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94ad867de2---83077888108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/99206750136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3eea6e640---70236831186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fae69cee109e27fb6ace5bd740c9963/sibazekitovetuzunita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a0134aaa10---kinerafijutul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6347d146ccd577505bcc5fdbe80346ba/talujowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anjingliar.com/contents//files/72423431112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdepskifamily.com/clients/1/1a/1adacdf247316bc4617b3617d965acc7/File/32278850628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupopiscis.com/upload/files/xojides.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_off00011b0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B0A 17876 bytes
SHA-256: af04f503585cc95b64c1896fec3e14eeed3150d2bd51c1a9e9d46a8313dc3f31
font_01_sfnt_off00014a09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016220.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16220 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 6cfc214b32a07e7df37afc80da20afe0290bd8837a55c041d53aaf960354ba57