Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3a0d4ea6c6540a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:58:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b872ea47fba71e178eeba103e9efaf2f SHA-1: 8fee33d01222a29cd5422f48f4b48156941567c6 SHA-256: d3a0d4ea6c6540a5483f56af441395a14001ff39288307d6ee2409fba222c355
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=animal+crossing+guide+pdf+new+horizons PDF link annotation
    • http://bilafafafa.com/shopadmin/upload/files/10072016172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607400d58b602---nemugizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventcompany.org/clients/e/e3/e30ef11cf4efe639fe6592aa37b9cb94/File/kisolinedimimijafepetif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/667e357ddf7c7f3d60f6009286f7feb1/wakijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a349098d448---gaxuregumizixafejasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021052003555273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/4429425396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d5424037ce---31586333671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farashimirooz.com/files/bexenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5p8jv0e0lqoiul5j8eebooaih5/gimuzisuwodinasesodubiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/73391215766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwjefferson.com/uploads/files/xujonilimoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nonstopsushi.com/uploads/files/12516147123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611190908097c---53419674463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/72769335642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d692a60d3df---55401879360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/vexugozajopafivalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenixfalt.com/userfiles/file/luwurolojalugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkhighclassof60.com/clients/871169/File/86517379138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sammyuriasproperties.com/userfiles/files/74274571161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotofidelity.cz/userfiles/file/61145902297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/wixoledel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d68af284034d038e2f445558ddea0e8/sisonenixobumakamenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6afba2f8552e80f28ae8908cfb2ec0b/7059651268.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_off0000e83a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83A 17332 bytes
SHA-256: eefd051b1b57d4ddfb4ecadbcadeb02bc99e595ff4f3a96c5337584ae4c163c7
font_01_sfnt_off000114f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012d08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D08 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 4da7c088aa9198c1293f1d95d03e0d94d9c59c0a710352b944f92f389008a820