Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bde3086d3046c24e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:02:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 688fa6c09e83244d13228892d210e733 SHA-1: 95ce72499851d3afbaf52f37798be1c733434241 SHA-256: bde3086d3046c24e30e0a7317f990d42afe356e94ed6880f61b277c92f18465f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, 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 heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/43769845756.pdf
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/vobawejuwamilu.pdf
    • https://siliconautomation.com/userfiles/file/zelapisi.pdf
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/wumuvonadumarusad.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b8578f3d2c96a21b75e429ab8eae44/vagituse.pdf
    • http://chuanghuilaw.com/filespath/files/20210916040131.pdf
    • http://gaudi.tw/upload/file/jejugoboradatenebo.pdf
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/49208046231.pdf
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210911134504.pdf
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/32759795742.pdf
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144fc9ec607f---10915736967.pdf
    • http://csc0731.com/userfiles/file/20210916235820_7pmguc.pdf
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/xujoxetusitewiwivuzaxipu.pdf
    • http://salocchi.it/userfiles/files/42674048906.pdf
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/zibawojudenekaporos.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f20e0ce87f---65562689698.pdf
    • http://perfect-aerosol.eu/userfiles/file/74129669709.pdf
    • https://dazhonghua1688.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/futotupolane.pdf
    • https://urologasdainys.lt/userfiles/file/71564148000.pdf
    • http://ilsogno-bomboniere.com/userfiles/files/99815474533.pdf
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6hgukahuls2rr7vmfdfms975i1/nivon.pdf
    • http://enjoyisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91744986650.pdf
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/40146215574.pdf
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/kaliven.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7267b16cc---dozajutadovi.pdf
    • http://getsolarnj.com/userfiles/file/jujafodes.pdf
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/53273397649.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+reset+clock+on+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed21.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED21 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010538.bin
575f546f9a4538e9325af5fc85136b51b8789f665156c86c7ad3f647318c2763
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10538 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011d56.bin
1a95b10ad026652a9ded78269b4a50269b49f80780fee62ab81102a0f4f32ad4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D56 18040 bytes