Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c1d3656802aa8dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-07-20 19:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2d106ebf439266dfe55c6888c0d6b6dd SHA-1: d4d95fa765cdef076c7bb8d92762e542c3a8dbe0 SHA-256: 3c1d3656802aa8dc2b0230bd944e0fc92a9e8ce7ecc216baab3269b9d7bc155a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/4978801434.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://barnesfamilyconnection.com/clients/f/f3/f37d50667a1bb99e511e26172889fab9/File/mebenirobaroxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9b1bcd19e---28715815077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8uhri9bu33ej3t1hshm8p17rsc/zenisasoduradodomikirobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.masismarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5c51bf2fa05eb9e255694213d44820b/7444361415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaab28eec46fd67d6688b5c92389bf21/33846710767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://electrabicycles.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/16201347738844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmhucjh6omdgr4ltvjduhbkgvp/vofugamalafupojoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/202142907356836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjkxmy.com/upload/files/202107020713373040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/goa2e0olnksgvfvg5lgr8bsb1o/46703351851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1db1f820e8---84978537155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bae86ec63410e5c036a45853fed7ac18/negajojixawadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a77adc55f58---xedeteguresajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/586d5596637e576b0a7ac0690471ecf3/54675531728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1103f40499a1dee211b0db139fbbce98/newetolafebodomoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/gunogomoroluvabozisaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/17cb373946df28452aec08d67e4310e0/86903349284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/jodasisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adaviestransportltd.com/userfiles/file/xijemadomipuxosinew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0e1f11808c1f703c94df113c10852ed/18875997172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=african+humanitarian+agencyPDF 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_off0000f5b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5B2 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 6f4b208929a660d7d638fbcf6687dd0706f5845e452ea9d4080734594d36afc8
font_01_sfnt_off00010de9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DE9 17392 bytes
SHA-256: e27582966003fc72504a29cdb594708bce816f09ea5ad60d8e8f1fd2bda41aa0
font_02_sfnt_off00013ae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1