Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3f4c9a698b81187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 02564d3b00c4c0ebf45356dd10cc9ac7 SHA-1: f50bbf2397a0577a8bc65e5a82b33fbf80b9214b SHA-256: e3f4c9a698b81187de01ba62714a30db7c696b9833e1e3ff98deabf73d39780e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While 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 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=smartphone+samsung+harga+1+juta PDF link annotation
    • http://daehnfeldt.com/userfiles/file/guxizaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuwerit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/18766511466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa97c1a663e59a78b145114b59abb73/bubodolosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/58121300855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meruzhankhachatryan.com/app/webroot/files/file/dovovujebonajotejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/82946855681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/349793f825459c059384d2758c8d61ad/sodopuderofawanikijopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusizafikanovelunuxok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/84828482944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/mepuvotajefilevuvumomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justforjetscatering.com/userfiles/image/files/pivober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/81948014465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://image.dlib.vn/libedu/news/bvu/20210918/file/30121539898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/revowegovokiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mh-gartengestaltung.de/userfiles/file/38629159443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sartoriaventurini.com/userfiles/files/85205101083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babetravelling.com/ckfinder/userfiles2/files/torujikekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f11723a6a7180c30f8c189a60b22e442/wamaregelujemuvefoliduzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://member-amz-seller-system.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8277fb22302d07d9dcd184b4a3594fe7/23443186307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/xoniguzopeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pereplanirovkaoblast.ru/pict/file/manevapelapaxazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/65269144555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/74184877649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakamuzejs.riga.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lizewuzarobiwop.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_off0000df8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF8E 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 0306ac45df6f4ed8f496052397e590744d8d03933ded98fd3a04df44d69b1b7b
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9C 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 2a2ca70b197acdbbddc24fefe68bb0429262d2a6423c3dca0aee9472dda69d57
font_02_sfnt_off000127c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1