Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3075c94b6598da0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 18:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8805711015e17f4670b9145c3cadafb9 SHA-1: 18d0b2bae663116a2e171aa829346e350edb7f3e SHA-256: 3075c94b6598da0fbd1ffdbe466bf1c31186a3122f014983a0ab4575e6ecab6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to trick users into downloading other malicious files, potentially via embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/97341584160.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tbeaindia.com/userfiles/file/repalabobitafewiwilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dfwsedan.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/zipugerarivolupixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kale6b9pvhpon60l3pumjkvm4/84746350318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laconchigliacasevacanze.it/userfiles/files/nekuvozakedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/75399454730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htbestcomputer.com/media/ftp/file/nimozakelefibubozopumiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/51387417794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/42701013864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locthanhwindow.com/img_duhoc/files/govet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrominicabs.com/survey/userfiles/files/19205907836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pre-www.bridge-college.com/uploaded/ckeditor/files/gotefulurumap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/74523529497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhagiatxanh.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/tegiwixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140797f638a3---23194494506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67741210838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353b9cc396d---36418766536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepimuguvusidapanevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pol2-simf.ru/userfiles/file/45142880530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/refojigasum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28026684743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wakonavaloba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/68516622702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161339dc84b768---84243934458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=android+application+backupPDF 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_off0000b61c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB61C 10520 bytes
SHA-256: f68bb74e7be046a4b02b08c97a5b2ddb9cb75c042077e32d359698bc07a816c1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDEA 17156 bytes
SHA-256: 023859611eda2db4033cf6ee7d842d7ae875259dacc5173b80f3ec857278f009
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA06 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1