Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3d185eb614e6a24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:01:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 156bf26055c7f80c4829580412633d92 SHA-1: 5ae5d5b3f1a1cdd1c573a2e57fa5be2e62816885 SHA-256: f3d185eb614e6a242c7666a5fa3680a33a107100722b5f2bfbff409982d7b38d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external links and the high confidence verdict indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nissan+armada+2005+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/58281309117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortvillairene.it/userfiles/files/33708041937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.it/uploads/file/wesodozudagej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/42845402804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/17269589717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607416ad109b2---toviwisagirikarapekuxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e29004bc63---gikawumasutusujexojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/korujugitudidakoninififej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iqh5bton82c0nlr3vuitkbd129/bexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608327a21eb21---bofujegexaxukuxon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/masaworaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srldirect.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30255772221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612bf80c84ffa---ganiverogarevafinazofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108bbdb43924---mapaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/382627c455a595eb3d8335727eb7dea8/62353093590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd6d16e3de7---laditefute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23380016e2---81730194012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbosgn1al9i.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zamolimevilibukovuwero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honyi.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/file/3280199464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphamasia.net/upload/files/3226328158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/39135989669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0b69f1fa5c---wezalalogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/62771618099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/6582821536.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_off0000d0b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B6 10512 bytes
SHA-256: a25a3e8658bafde777f1ffab318298cb78824abd3eae40c862cc5237478291eb
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8A1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000100b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B3 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 3d7b9b51675dc9442a8e2c9de84d6981b0420efb24f8dde330751b6d21941336