Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c07c21e0ba56137…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:43:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f6dbab61e30179b87dd3d73093da3604 SHA-1: a26cff7afdc7213f202abe8a1d6e6ecb6e9501bf SHA-256: 3c07c21e0ba56137da107b2d3cbf8e001bea9cbadf129c29c16d3a1df8eef0a5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic indicates a deceptive call-to-action, likely intended to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=record+sealed+vs+expunged
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91c7d3ae95b8a8a5231eddbe72d65fd0/tuxujanivafowedeza.pdf
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/94244198362.pdf
    • http://aexpress.lv/index/images/up/file/kakalilabireg.pdf
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609224efc12bf---73025159283.pdf
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4obfpjnbbamdqu6gk71mmfgc6/tusobisamigat.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9880da538---sejuzikeriled.pdf
    • http://fittbikese.hu/files/file/gidopaxuxonabanovix.pdf
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/xuwiw.pdf
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d83794e6d3bb07dce0ecc53e9e499b21/demotapevanexajisox.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/82799142234.pdf
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcc232db74---90449861161.pdf
    • https://brune-schmuckwerk.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68402136040.pdf
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/zekepajojirixuzot.pdf
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/piporulolovugoma.pdf
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608674a0e9ae6---koxar.pdf
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bd0f5392d---reninuwifu.pdf
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc1e5e6db6b2650d4ff94db66a82e1f/62179056494.pdf
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/93581966788.pdf
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/92510998508.pdf
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/25265067770.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e279.bin
2f1246a725b07c4f37032dcf538c9cc39141a8b4a72d204d96759a9f20ded7ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE279 10812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011371.bin
c484f1b3dead8ad2c6c3f1c1c6c9cae340bc3484b137a987e4acf2b412072364
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11371 16588 bytes