Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c1d0b6b988f3e0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:13:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: fba7e1923000e4494e375488a77d9957 SHA-1: 31556e844a6b72e08c5cc61b4b3081934a75c36f SHA-256: 3c1d0b6b988f3e0a45af9177f8fd39fa43b78c107dbcf343777fbdb9b823e113
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, which is indicative of a link farm used to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure to download further payloads or engage in phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings clearly point to a malicious link distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3740689302---bobezubenulunolibovusovi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pokewaveanaheim.com/uploads/files/pabotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yachtandgulet.com/userfiles/file/72797449692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//78156340079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63cc1d1a8cffc9756428388983d1659/18067976175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsubhashawale.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegufekajazilik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sca-eagleegg5k.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/30279575401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitexprofi.cz/userfiles/file/20333943170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070310be395d---88351079557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/94372641626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e359a71054c7aaf299a1560ad07e2d5/97624114368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b2f0ae8ee8---58616977124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6f2b038aca---zumagumobaxipudibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/norusovafosevuzafurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5inisebi1gl18dthq330l5g623/16701368622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde69813160---tebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56083822864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5418fe1e0a56d7d4d31e46942bfe40bc/78879792266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29686943584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funkydrop.shop/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8867106754b5a1b8364058bf0ec1226/99446215488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/tunabasola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609634a160843---kilakarevoturabafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7648a1d79---80849183556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopadive.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14013208376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/bitewojibarisagewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+calculate+my+bmi+manuallyPDF 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_off0000e258.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE258 10556 bytes
SHA-256: ae1de1aa01616fbf4ceaac23416fc5f2facb1ad3ac50498b82acaf82b3e14b74
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA6C 17876 bytes
SHA-256: b181ec41b6eab8d9e1b9b2df00c0fe5b213963531231728f4c827055a1fa2d22
font_02_sfnt_off00012904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12904 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1