Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df3e7ff60355c9e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 02:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 084d3ee41380d840975a5dd7d2e63984 SHA-1: 650a42cd3320b0c7ddab99dce3f0100a5f7c22de SHA-256: df3e7ff60355c9e0275f0fa7521846bfa7abcc83c4dfe9a0120e7dc766a037fb
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters and the 'SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate a deliberate effort to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute phishing content or malware. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=different+types+of+contamination
    • http://derma-dts.de/files/file/dawasirexupaxavigusivusur.pdf
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8c434cea06---zadarago.pdf
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1h76gebu7l5smjkbvrlldu2n4/riduvil.pdf
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6u85hlhmt3b2aioor4335geb8/22481124361.pdf
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/67624748435.pdf
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o38n0efe14frg00cuqrofkbui0/88386615291.pdf
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9332a3344eeb5fb882e2e0b290b3917/16677037041.pdf
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65cd41cedd799bb54bc32c7f18493766/3925164758.pdf
    • https://a-1commercialkitchenservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84539281400.pdf
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a76c8e0f86c7ac52f0d2af378ee2dfc0/11665225659.pdf
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6ff218a53223705a3e41e6cb8779892/49805827762.pdf
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/30790495244.pdf
    • http://sentezetutmerkezi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/98710024665.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6v38mp8122d1rltdoh0tl46k7c/5443393068.pdf
    • http://actybrain-consult.com/Upload/files/xakarakesuvik.pdf
    • http://mai-colle.jp/userfiles/file/28878353524.pdf
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081cd62140fe---tuzinigur.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/41355741891.pdf
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/28819882224.pdf
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718ef8e03c1---2825923031.pdf
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607781b584017---74263125318.pdf
    • https://jurad.eu/files/file/65442236865.pdf
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9cd5519b6---90436996069.pdf
    • 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_off0000e984.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE984 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001019b.bin
4c20c9e3d0c0556054603736abe1d62d919f872a7989ddd6045e9445ba0adc48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019B 10712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a3f.bin
febe6fffdda6968ea8fbb78ffe206fb012ae03b167bb4276ce799f8492c6aabf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3F 16668 bytes