Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 003c6e501acde773…

MALICIOUS

PDF

133.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 22:51:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1718e2ead4f5488f57a06ea1925e68c8 SHA-1: faaadaa4351dd5eac1af97038c00832649e97a97 SHA-256: 003c6e501acde7732367d05b3fafbaac0dfde3f5c02c6a9c7f68fd6b10c57632
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9829

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://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b423d5abb62---31419922647.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/520d385604905fcfc6a214b2612aabc8/92696927324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/5370805607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607097ec1b6db---91652614383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttccid.com/userfiles/files/kizafuriwagegolap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taevlingar.se/images/pages/file/52168408129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b4776dd91---faloguzezesafofakure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdshg.com/images/upload/File/dubizibinizevibelimisowej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/lugipuleziwege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210504093211842768667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/zorezunuwososi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bufolari.com/public/immagini/file/nenabezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c0a6d2f09---15906201497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opakowania-loga.pl/zdjecia/fotki/file/zejemutedebutuwomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71175260651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8058beeab69690ac6f73b557f64b4e3c/lowajurilogawetufutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulk-supplies.com/userfiles/file/13849176236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72953d2c911475cd1bb49097e80a955a/saxuxobatujon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/31325215601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8pla0thcgkl27tqqhlofh42jd9/vujobibaponu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74259df4fdc32ad0010359e1198305d3/gilawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szyldkj.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/podivoguluwobijeteduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhactheducthammy.com/upload/files/kosolijokadosedomubopiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendaalzheimer.org/files/galeria/files/ferotuxobitavuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vipbeachhouse.com/uploads/editor/file/29581363443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9d6f1ba7d91d7d54a933caef68db66/fipitewijixitoxexim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/12494552666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=bac+s+svt+septembre+2015+polyn%C3%A9sie+corrig%C3%A9PDF 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_off00019dc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19DC0 20924 bytes
SHA-256: 778ad6a7477969847aa165c3ed3ee7eba36bb7da903a83a43ea7dbec328fb8df
font_01_sfnt_off0001d216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D216 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001ea2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1EA2D 11672 bytes
SHA-256: e3640e4a9399a5ed69c03a7aa0d9091ca799fee5613ce9d7ab108c1e57cf0b4f