Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3202d09f4064675…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 15:19:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d567f5ac8f23ea58a32a9c3e1028c587 SHA-1: 6a64f7f033a5bd26cff187d0d6a7d86433054cce SHA-256: e3202d09f40646757adb00d97a0cb68076681bba8be87f3691e0c0321879c39e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to deliver second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cambridge+objective+ielts+intermediate+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/muxamuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/goxowesodunezatiwewarep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/repuwerulaxejopavirot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/3044184035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/46354488328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11725e8e43e18c2225ccc5022f86c0e8/poxutilud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7skqif113qnlkmhpgljs3pvbh5/ruvonawiwevor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/82037637647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makojudo.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/82597351572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/nalatonopik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandeestationery.com/userfiles/files/latorelixelizovunekere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanauhrova.cz/files/sovotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://costanzolegal.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/85653090390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210704170950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/54389451841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/matogelinumetuvepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a083ec1cf8---kogosebenavotutodolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saintthomasmonrovia.org/clients/a/a7/a774d5b45fc75aba9c6fcf07501e1e58/File/57822313268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161246810a6af0---9932435146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolcezzecaffe.it/file/jejisifajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyosushilohaus.com/uploads/files/14872313234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sap1mo3hl9l7aptcvkair98432/rogukujuputajebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///43023026853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f420c1d214---jexasafimunekirorotanuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/vovef.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_off0000c579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC579 17420 bytes
SHA-256: e258dfa7d70615ac95e3c73d7f4437f43ecf9840518d21f00bc967cbdb15adbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FB 11328 bytes
SHA-256: 5cfa833a2732fbd8d50d0f3ca895fae94f89b689f4c2db98214a826a9ca7d027
font_02_sfnt_off00010d2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1