Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3bfd4d8cb95ece3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:18:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2740be7c668d2fc0d686b475998ca3ab SHA-1: ed7f53c692857a984a5863098fadf096475ed392 SHA-256: f3bfd4d8cb95ece3ffe7807fdd57b4d56c28e06bbc0aaec011a5ef629fbfea82
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, 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 link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to lure victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bidmas+worksheets+tes PDF link annotation
    • https://channeloflove.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89765085496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxi-dental.ro/imagini_ws/nigirirajobige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64655106064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160753ba8457bf---veribusiluweduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/lezafidinoralusilemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duancanhotot.com/upload/files/69978752270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/45652762471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7j4rnbigpdsvohjp15jur230i3/46241528492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/jakupijupasimeruwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607472fbc3d2f---20632266708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/egs466amo0qqan2ua3dh7in8e1/48988237578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/welajevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdc33e4fba3---33835983450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legend-chang.com/UserFiles/files/watezafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldpension-luebben.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/pomupawufasazukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuhs1981.com/clients/8/82/82ca37c076ec4232796cb58ed009bb3a/File/64085283269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021081520530173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7dcb8315eb---bavetotozukarexeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d64ae0e3a6c---74578324464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846c6d6308a---kivazukofakizenipawidowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.euro-fly.eu/userfiles/files/97335852481.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_off00011700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11700 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012f17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F17 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 18a98bedad7eecbd7f3df2c949174d3d566ed9830918f5ded6f7b9845ed1436d
font_02_sfnt_off00014764.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14764 18716 bytes
SHA-256: 80a533a8432e09b8272781eb0f3d5291e2b61139a01ebc5be890945ff794151f

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