Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c1aa5337a733c70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:06:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c46cda27d37a0f606c9bc46aadf5de3e SHA-1: 39796991666012729076b462da94e352e9323410 SHA-256: 3c1aa5337a733c70b81ccf6d7143567cb7e141b85386a7abef78e1e52036b598
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this document is intended to facilitate phishing or malware distribution by directing users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=take+your+point PDF link annotation
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/3213355689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burkina-businessschool.com/business_school/uploads/file/46908899044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunnysideclassof64.com/clients/a/ac/acc4ccb49d7935ca36198347b895393e/File/lezebisumulivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e9be55ef767a643e45117ed3cef0c8e/fujoronekatubazexegape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/metipona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/kupevulepebasimurudope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/rojawelaxefirakexoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://starwebline.com/calisma2/files/uploads/16055008166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/lokadepowupobaxofeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qn0dum43n4lq9pg3v4u5f069c7/lekesaromadeneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/kedepagipixatesezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fb55d40d2---60637718501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/78433673870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5411efcd958bcc225c34094b94fa92c/39541021873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f33a624ebdfa9a60679bd6cb1e2a08f0/worekuvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a5105c884e543a304aa2231aa1135b0/mapuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/40173565391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/15871681492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/42732840711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelinamerica.com/clients/874377/File/45916879614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://washlounge.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kozax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a0a0b82182b4808852276da25fd1dc6/70490291955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874761e17dd85ea63cff014175c6ab5b/5490941414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/1714047625.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_off0000f90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11120 17820 bytes
SHA-256: 4361e692dd614d420c94e44a949b56692199b4733fd573937451b56483e331f5
font_02_sfnt_off00013f5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F5E 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 68c7ce059bd28bfc05256ff5cfd45847d3ccbb5f84ba33f506e242072b138bb3