Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3fb5015a3d029d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-10-08 19:51:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 333b70804e29507c5fb77f4394103410 SHA-1: dc4bcf26ad886b70f46963006a39da0f1989de19 SHA-256: b3fb5015a3d029d8b10cb3194c2f24c15e50ceb07f0cbf7b44b55db40a391ed3
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mcq+on+thermal+power+plant PDF link annotation
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/51459646095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hatowo.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/widewajiwovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcz.eu/files/files/71806148771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://temple.mo/userfiles/file/tetojipimoseti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luxboss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jigamarinivipogowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161529578679e2---46614990562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transgusto.ch/userfiles/file/48199576920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.net/slicice/file/lotobad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moskvaznaet.ru/upload/files/53193190146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/84715882742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c3c4692c3---kamatitiremopakuxeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613719563ead3---pokezuludexazefasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yas-center.ru/userfiles/file/43173171891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a411620e61232690eb987b669f82b4b/moxalaruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungwoo-n.com/userfiles/file/66614212797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.szphotar.com/admin/img/files/wolekunoniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a182e971c---6353590972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfast.ru/userfiles/file/fejekojanojugelela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/731e67f17ec66fbdc2a7f5b8bdfe43d6/93263675771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/regoxebabizekorexenuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ab5f2aae3---sagime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.teeintact.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/img/file/tegozuvodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents/files/14484207456.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_off0000e303.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE303 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB15 19432 bytes
SHA-256: 69d86f45924f134d5b407cffb49cc39245e54294ab05880ca43553a960fd1920
font_02_sfnt_off00012ce6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CE6 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 86a712ecc1d025e878c0b35e03b975f692f8e73372b11d9c9ef37546e0a9eddf