Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d3cf2d0c9b6c2cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 1e7c1a25644f4389fdf7dd6029796ed2 SHA-1: 0c2ba89a34d52b7c5c79b07f74a22755910b6509 SHA-256: 1d3cf2d0c9b6c2cf3b96b6da69f9cc07f20a408cced1560f769e7709fbee2ce0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the rationale is based on the URL heuristics and AV detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/61924608454.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svx.su/ffile/file/rarefifemer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c53f021ffb4---zorupaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gi6upfh8d8usuer2bms83nivkm/menarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jar-ted.pl/file/zotolofosafizukasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0808228a04---160141092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5335a9d5b913bd2409561c405fcaec5/96687217075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b7c281e4e6---70582710993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5e6c6f4fbb06ad6c0b6a156ac20d979/24571027746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/81588191577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9b9211a34---59110560336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffaba53a27---xezevisatadoritu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6ee2917d063ac33439156f6a35c465/xunumizezavurezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/lupitiwifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd094e92e14---17253082695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb1eb8e4779---vewiwono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098e588b2caa---90425206248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc3ce4nebf8l1ccsgreik1tr9t/jumonusiguxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/milazuwuturimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/jamorojajamobegofejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoklej.pl/app/webroot/media/files/xadebufulawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltssinternational.com/res/wysiwyg/file/62307599069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610bddea4c0c6---wilaxeputuxofizawuzefeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb0d092f01d72b32e8843e3578ce72e8/jemagoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=oracle+performance+tuningPDF 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_off00012240.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12240 10780 bytes
SHA-256: ff8c5e74d03601831a97d1f0c0c00616af964cca04807dc0dc5a6d69c1bb3f8e
font_01_sfnt_off00013b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015329.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15329 17800 bytes
SHA-256: 3bfb9df45d36f605fd6b67452183160fe0f80ccf51bcc127ed3198ed4c137b85