Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c3f703c57999517…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.6 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 363ce4f5763184c6cdd8e66856597bc9 SHA-1: f9553785f61054a62122a07eab6f55f636662a8d SHA-256: 2c3f703c57999517fedc7746e8c9a28ffbf0051e95f9078e218856762ca261b1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs and link farms, many hosted on disposable or compromised domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure point towards a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=baked+cherry+tomatoes PDF link annotation
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430085719660153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lesura.net/userfiles/file/gilejafofezilax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/jebarenuwajazimugavorin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assytekservizi.com/userfiles/files/20480838234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qugdcdolo8gqi1q2v01n91ugfb/vebefamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/84899837503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aaac70f780---netalufaliribojasitunade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/77671903706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8be60380f6---kogoxinavovaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa514554147---jawiwemasunosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c584633e293---61115063396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posekatzahradu.cz/files/file/20602535082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076123416f83---kenurodanaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f49acf90a---70440848242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/wadidikovupilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9225a6697a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a921a4b374---41761150474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/tarupawizutadeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9p4b29dncp2cc6y.net/upload/fckeditor/file/22901271604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/tevogilukopevipufewelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yesilderecine.com/admin/editor_resim/file/15397370241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/8231194729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbp9n9dem7hr31d2adi7l67kn1/nodawajovazojof.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f410.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF410 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_01_sfnt_off00010a17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A17 17656 bytes
SHA-256: 282b4ea2d4929d151f73f75ad578b28680b71adc5b996cc1525165ce0b7e0387
font_02_sfnt_off0001384e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1384E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00015065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15065 10652 bytes
SHA-256: 2e17986a2cbcf25d539ce48170a8a1e55c48e85fbcc6a0002d84faf763641538