Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b435d4d3b3f23206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-06-26 04:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 06b3beabc18b456c3a06a8d16f2f7098 SHA-1: 3ebaef7d4a8e43332303e9839045af561d28c85b SHA-256: b435d4d3b3f23206f7462d74ab5fcce1f8e351fc88db9d2978ad6a1007d4cdf5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI findings and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kristinanamaste.eu/files/mebotitunogunow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/ritezatarobupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa13c8dfbc---lizonotixepozetexokotip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chretkinia.pl/userfiles/file/witoviviradig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a2573ad81f---29229589454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.irrv.org/uploads/files/82291057185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ecdpgtk0kidba7bghlol7teqs/13741640173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marmarases.com/upload/ckfinder/files/risuwuwibekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e954e689a6---rakumidasilokupajuwusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceilford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/376f0020713f428e013f475efd163ef3/21273945751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab55003e28---gunulowenebemes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91db1cbf40---pujelisefebutaxojunirovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/pakapebeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f05b41398debcfc09b47419c70f06dd/16247954908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/72478777988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ff12eb896ceb339357bfa7fca7552f9/fuzumudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b9677482085f9780c188101f7e05fd4/47129059473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/26569502221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctcpt3gi6vqhra2f66nguss573/37657415319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848e6ed868d---woruvinilozifamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/72128119239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc6b66b496c7dd4ceb82f62106d806b8/25880991081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/55337585823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigband-ulm.de/userfiles/files/jejewobotofufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cb7593359c---midasuvanovotojajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laatjehuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/37016748893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=number+patterns+and+geometric+patterns+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_off0000d815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD815 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f02c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF02C 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 9b295a485241198c42bb8b753cf64b8249b0c0a874ae93660a43621d330f0251
font_02_sfnt_off000109ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BA 17084 bytes
SHA-256: b5ac2046e6482b2f3a33e0dba24c5cd509d28aea4a36e0fbaaae0cdf7fb475e5