Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c0a077a8a95cb72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 05:42:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 30b33128e8bfea9e2d9757e0691c325e SHA-1: 159099ed5557a13b20fbf8a6015e5cd6b33891d9 SHA-256: 3c0a077a8a95cb72be2a5f986888867ef05e0936e76baa043d3fdb8afc970271
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, while numerous, do not contain executable content directly, but serve as the primary mechanism for the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://gpmpoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/favigiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/17786070508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094c06f671aa---16606778998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fidelishospice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gelanujefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d373ec2a19---bikivusete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2-140-swe8h.xn--p1ai/files/mefiladapowotetuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ace3324a383---92144363045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fk47q33br2mflv2ufamqnh34th/xalixoberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/fesex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10debd7650c223c58ed1f4760a7b6115/pasuzedinezuwalokozojawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ip7qoq4qupeimri5or4tjpofi6/xumafabawolakugedudobireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5744a4e4d39d88e426f336c734194e32/zumuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nowyhotelik.pl/userfiles/file/845916715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestorkate.com/uploads/ckeditor/files/58277443440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/rugudofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0f1e8a4faf---58381165207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anupbolivia.com/images/files/jelefaxukukatatiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lebedosapartotel.com/data/yukle/files/12590885613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joyfool.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e32b18f8bf0eabf8e8fd842c777b06d/bovuwasodupuzusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terryhaas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c8188ee44bceed9527f71e24460c68d/vuzodupufuruxuxomivenoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d536188f6a6a9094156a998452bc01eb/kolemapiwuxupibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+can+i+change+the+size+of+a+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10587 17384 bytes
SHA-256: 5681abc05b510042cebbc0b52644a1fb07c91bc44cd46f022e6943bb079daf28
font_02_sfnt_off0001334e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1334E 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 106bb332dbcaf6680d09ea62ef8b225a599d74be54446921427fa500f8c91981

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