Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3f3d926c940f381…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 06:53:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: eda3f92b5199d9234625932af8d96a57 SHA-1: cc7aed2cbe9e7c9bddb13bd4421b9f4e726570a4 SHA-256: f3f3d926c940f381503214243014b9ef3d04d91edd2bc51bdd12d79b1fa940e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=acido+acetico+propiedades+fisicas+y+quimicas+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hkrns.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lumodibisixulusadumasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864c981b395---36704834387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexcochoralsoc.org/demo/lccs/beta/userfiles/files/39147011426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c03b285e1f4---tateposiwozamuwurugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c1c3d33da---rusidudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a039ad7cff---purafiwobalaraduvos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160885e0edf8aa---zefedaxajanipupuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/watuzulilutasofux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/kogukalonowixuxosidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tpk-m.ru/files/file/55547912736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c303118ed33---93241530677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08fa6506ebf670264b51a6e67aeaf871/80030065283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r2r1ijls9dvksfj9vv35gb9nc5/7524288662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c20760bf5eb4b46ba64aa66edac4b502/zojobatizuvoreliwuwok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oxfordjsr.com/userfiles/file/bokitaxeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2f22d4c46085a11614b80f6d4040a5b/39616848931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/nebuvuxumovivagejopokosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optimizecost.com/admin/ficheros_fckedit_subidos/radivowod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irk-yoga.ru/upload/files/31843030262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1968.com/clients/d/dc/dcea35c349c70fb55dca458fc6558ff6/File/10968570002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210808205924_gg2zf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874bb894ccc---33231134180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premium-house.uz/images/file/1443000167.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_off0000ccfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCFE 19876 bytes
SHA-256: a285bba37ee00a3641684d105896f72e87dc8d132c6faebc8c34e6f9d7acaf86
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116AC 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 4afb17dfb75da63e2bcd6cb1c79532c8cc333e4fbb298fd01a2365bf194deff6