Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c009ebadc84ec36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-08-06 04:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0dd7ae4404b2ce201fdd06c83aabc7ee SHA-1: ab16f82d02e709e10446acc6b609142d76e270c7 SHA-256: 3c009ebadc84ec362e99ff0b74fd72f56120a92bfb89b64affa8be377a03d922
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it's designed to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The file's structure as a link farm is a common tactic for distributing secondary payloads or leading users to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210721234229.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786e82f2d23---15421925514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8cdbeb8787---pikawawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72500098982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/88592025405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blog.crowdly.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833cd2104cd---zodagaketudowidavezekaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866973e102b---90985494387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a10c54caf---14235208251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19ba22e44d---botetigidesutupex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techbis.pl/files/file/57137794530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e9a5734eb---81798044998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b215659a404596fde6982b36869656/19166357873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610c0e6b2bb95---23084072781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajtoablakcentrum.com/_user/file/35497764132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/41002318465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/wijija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88118486025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents//files/safunowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666851c05a9f0f5f00edee8ccb520967/69970677733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silesiacapital.eu/data/file/selarisixadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758aa59a3a0---bivijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qte46fmh4am1trrkqhldnpf145/27934628225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a571e117f6d---40828137260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e18871d4705---pesilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=cysa%2B+pdf+study+guidePDF 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_off0000eec3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC3 16928 bytes
SHA-256: b88edb672ca4cbbbdf3b8f15d77c62deea38f70c5fb4168a11563b32def18de5
font_01_sfnt_off00011a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A86 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001329d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1329D 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 4a9909a31438f67145f3c38826ec8a16f21068508eb9884b2343581eb4678244