Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 000c3fd6315d4c8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 23:09:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2a1621287dbc9a6e9da03e3003517b2b SHA-1: 2f71f68a275544b6af96efcfba29a1bfc57c3bc5 SHA-256: 000c3fd6315d4c8a630230539971ab3d10e377a3fe637732bf7b484e441311d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be non-readable content, typical of exploit-laden PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/47041357166.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s7qa4aujqao9q9aguiml2070u0/guvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7dbe3589d1739df415cc117d42d94d7c/datuvamaxamixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2254c16ca2---19374706486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fde4f6eeef---12209405863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c9dd10bc955970e6d1422fc8289182/towusenoritusob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823f8f32d22---50130948526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/59982433951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/3694211649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trackeg.com/en/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160740a45028f5---97863935842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegibbsfamilyreunion.com/clients/d/d9/d929505c7faf6263097cc97620c39d65/File/55302696128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ba1cc4bf4---28242251842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5835feb14b5bc36afe13587ceb9723c/37662082956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16096103bceddf---20730934124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodwill.as/userfiles/file/48765132493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a9f25f1043fcf32948dba999f6aaddc/rorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/xuxupelazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c9f367fef---nojufozawuwuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09b77e2d95---23105642555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.com/E/file/danofebekodobodiwetekatin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f6ddd6cf2beadd285fa3f790eb7a9c/52236585805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4e0b39f3be0b397f6f7876fe71e9653/670116160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b269b3e5b---74529626940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=swtor+imperial+agent+armor+setsPDF 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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fc2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001143e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143E 17304 bytes
SHA-256: f90f275e300ce2022c4aa00e97af618b7e9cdb7871b9d18e4ab3956b9c2d6ffd
font_02_sfnt_off0001416f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1416F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 7d1219b6cb657d0f4b80b7e3e22da757cb9fcc24a1ef243776d28e580abf8d84