Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c155ec4f6883f82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-08-28 07:31:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1ba09a99601e1cf57ed7f9b216cb0119 SHA-1: b2717da970ebaba45541b51f457a740bd519cb0f SHA-256: 3c155ec4f6883f82e7159b9e69f8f9d48ab1c61a1c3447fa7813c86bcf3c051b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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=kolb+experiential+learning+ppt PDF link annotation
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h0fkkd59tn9arp0806qr63cns/33499712939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af95badfc72---zatixenesujono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/60271362643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uce2dajd61ie9t8l1aivcoo3o4/katajixazewaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfcsa531qfp56labm7v4ndvb9o/74589998940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collegium-connect.nl/ckupload/files/lasoxerarijoxozitesuzaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a5582a764f9c8d900e9f5dee5c0f1c/dugison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mpressivelabels.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixopowusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/78178937064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/tuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mgaal1muuve7dm4ptl5rp60j2/74855417108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19ac4fffe5b938ba6fde5d937b4bd167/bogirilujavexidofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mywil.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608be857bc136---57762192277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs1962.info/clients/3/33/33dcd814b32da85629335a95ab3d0158/File/vinitidotew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/23510766263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/kofemulesenegudinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097017eb07da---15580684604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents//files/dariteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hocikto.info/userfiles/file/82804330607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/75466340976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skinrepublic.vn/webroot/img/files/gikarafizevufewexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/mupeduxeroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/mosasevopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/51268119165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oralrem.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/webeteropemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/tuxugeja.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC116 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 61f82bb0d845b811aab9bf2f3add359158dc10c943375b223bb46af4b9432c59
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CF 15884 bytes
SHA-256: 07fe421c4a6f6a7f794eb171a3743e7e1dc5b708f9563ccb8a7add48bedc7705
font_02_sfnt_off00010132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1