Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3e68b4b50689d32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-26 00:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cf9440e4cc9cc9a9d704dbdb792180c8 SHA-1: 81fa70425e0124be62c585e20f2745faf30b785b SHA-256: f3e68b4b50689d32b0f9ff5fbd5319d47408a4c1d83136b517677e93594d7f96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/85497136157.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/19572504450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charlotteellisscholarship.com/clients/a/a5/a56794a54ce3a7e2a8fdc514f00cf952/File/pebutevagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4c1068e9c---digevefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4a410077907b992e581626d3e8f55f2/85330968392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9435cb8ab---693488081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hak-al.com/resimler/files/lamitidevaxujalijetusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rintrans.com/files/tawezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3e49da30---jegazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cka-shiba.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fizumuzawemawegabexevosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fellowpeo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc5a593789c1068294fb76a643451534/rorawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/323fe12b437d185a13073876c8c93cdb/logunetijaroredebisije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seto.cz/uploads/bewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhzhengli.com/upload/zeziwomewek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610dc41946154---ronikajotun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2877557d093418a00e33234042c6396/52337058395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d4a1ea8def17af4b916da876d089a09/13842284974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsclassof1959.com/clients/a/a7/a7a82b2a6025f7fafce5d77be70bf845/File/32940691234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4233c3c13594f7ae63131713baa9e26/pazedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e09b66b96a---99673778827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f194e8f0f1---nasotagakisogodupiroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baglab.pl/galeria/file/kulugonuvubuman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/gerakisolulumuwazowipofob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tauroconsulting.pl/userfiles/file/verobafiburidami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=just+one+more+thingPDF 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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fa2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA2C 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 73d906bee459edb25fbd29a3866399379dc5d7c48ba9ad56b74f553ff9988d1e
font_01_sfnt_off000111af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111AF 17460 bytes
SHA-256: ebf69e884a1bf5c31a37f79d6174b34b93828bd7357e22cca3b2ab57d944be05
font_02_sfnt_off00013f14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1

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