Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3bd7f74ad04a56b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-06-19 23:30:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 459b8c3bbafcc7a665bd6946e7f88541 SHA-1: fb7123dd9ec35c3207ced9ff84c588c7b363288d SHA-256: d3bd7f74ad04a56bec58ccd0a4ee5b18760cf495274b57290ab06bef5f762703
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gt+racing+2+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://rolmech-strzelno.pl/Upload/file/36091877715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24218428797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/009db52aa0f2d7b7e3eff95b6df05c3c/fivakoniwujagotezusogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/tabesuzililodozepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/360601109cf5b49747567db609decfdf/sazuvidewelali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3k9j5bfi89dcuk3o7k5ml4tp25/79163679194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/337f165101283a052b0129608cac707b/77805872023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160801c51a1b36---xewapaxojededalofala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ed18a9e72dd4fb13fdd61db242d2f95/45896433742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eca45b5d6c---mefuwesubeporutubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/51955917283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71b327660a609101f0ef80044f09bc2a/52208934874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608736340dc01---32743827227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file/%5C/2021061221470980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/62916206438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D4 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 31a18857736f3d5993c51faa721efbeceb49f21aa1bfcecdbbee40ad7263ba91
font_01_sfnt_off0000f722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF722 21624 bytes
SHA-256: 69ce88fd5aca9843ab41cf3454898b4f96546c4410b5800829342aa24f8c3444
font_02_sfnt_off00012962.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12962 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 028dbaa76d48ae99b02248bacea50134e27ed131f5dd39e25ac401de8961e19b
font_03_sfnt_off00013eee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EEE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71