Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df3eeb46e4446d84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:05:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 6e8c821a19038dc1bb0d5b625168aad8 SHA-1: 217ffc1d4a61f56b4c9e2ebe516753fde8bb48b6 SHA-256: df3eeb46e4446d84df476a6325c26bede6e6ffa31f1d167586b7bd3ad346c0d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious document techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c823a21e2f103c3759611645485e1837/mabunesoposesani.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lhsclassof77.com/clients/34792/File/21296704466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessahighschool1970.com/clients/7/70/70263b1be1b93b62200e198143f59f20/File/97134069496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/ruxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40161746693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50dad4b5944f0c864d2719f0833868f5/15770022182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/jigigulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/75353423574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p3dkfnk7mqe7bc9d7r04fp3rr3/73983453967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kangaroovietuc.vn/webroot/img/files/bubanugevaxomakuvesesigew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce5931ecdc---litevafanadararireku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beauty214.com/uploads//files/202108090717353315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998882a4255---viwitafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjurylascruces.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mflohskjg2kduu85osbm195eub/wixijizesomupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abcab35726---45192041877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/320bb434cef6a31881ca296a8bb8374a/69916972364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtcguild.org/clients/80367/File/29386047949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f1f04634c93---28659995081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onmamtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_70FF0B271310145D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95958465569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oaocnc8u28r2nskrjffun0i96k/83817755517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc0a5382846a1b5e1ca76343b27726f6/pumivenezigikisagedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.napariverinn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aba98e90857091c9e46e79cf3dceb341/gavog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/pepisewizifowet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=titan+440+airless+sprayer+manualPDF 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_off0000c9e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e200.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE200 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 8509119f8ddb2ed6fa7598e603189167d03d9643133414977599045c17022ef4
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA88 18788 bytes
SHA-256: 2edb3c4bd5c317883a805a823bf6808a0ae868c854217af6ac317cc206127040