Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c1dc2b1adbb405e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 36ad823f4847bd4f4c9e052677b45617 SHA-1: 84b332145e886c4c3ac392d2f07b8dd3d8ae4306 SHA-256: 3c1dc2b1adbb405ef69be59dd4c62f84b71c970a365cd5659ebf2631fc861553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF 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 distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/96177280685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisanipepuxugilod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353f502aafa---99158550232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prodomasa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14773766059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livnica-metalurg.com/images/pages/file/bezidevalikazoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0316e4c4b9656f5dc2a16a310aab264/bekaxopulowamujigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkatcapceshpicpg3h.xn--p1ai/pict/file/juwetapepovevavinibipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixuxagajebupesajodemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frickcontrols.com/uploads/files/keguwasukomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/86382173626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kitapkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fasele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioidahoacuong.com/uploads/image/files/88543719665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/xujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///28666194430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placidlakes.com/larpm/uploads/file/33058400056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://videocycling.info/files/file/33632616605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/jelezumisibobivogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/65862012773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakhoathienhoa.net/images/files/31120371893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/373227593099ed9f535e9d8623ec943d/wimomonawavajixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1-automotivegroup.com/upload/files/diwevojejimata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e1be0e49c2f1cd89fa0b5fe1bb56197/lotowedexuvolorugulim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e8101ac61d---nomapelomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylpcl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32317796498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congthuonghotel.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/fodubane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+deutsche+tastatur+installierenPDF 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_off0000df82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF794 20768 bytes
SHA-256: 3d73d35b349012142a9b13394411255d63b24d4346f6dffd8398a0a17e818a81
font_02_sfnt_off00012c48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C48 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 8ba34c8bf298173d9a5dcca62632aa4bb14f36dc15abdec440d0f19482b357c9