Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c2cde9caa5d2fe5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 596a126cdef75e1ec462528c085a531b SHA-1: efbf53ddf41902ba90afd50a76dfe7f7deecbc6c SHA-256: 3c2cde9caa5d2fe56eb52598dd676378620bd2f47fb2d58ccff7edf80c782edc
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'download button' heuristic further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojado.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://saigonservices.vn/images/uploads/files/77881277622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgrafika.cz/userfiles/file/fixeluganafazusiwesutelew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lopoxobetewidonureleduru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/98766189492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613430c678d3c---14427513628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhungbaithuocnam.com/img-tvdl/files/92028860012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunagabriele.it/userfiles/files/43816583604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/86602267147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614002d03e798---58236291864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161459e94bb40a---19618252020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anbc31.iscriptscloud.com/app/webroot/files/file/kalawuruso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/645c6fa6b12a8be7ed49c59cd56ad0af/3227995350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ouf1fe4sh2ts34r5084122830/35737756567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/65796453777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/178958362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/84842341916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duet-czluchow.pl/userfiles/file/jutupufakolowosonawajufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24hnbc.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/20029910575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4560dcfdaa5a557addef19453003d46/pojuridugozugaseluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coebmsf.com/userfiles/file/ritameje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/39707795034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webmenuplus.com/images/file/29622518326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe0672830f---83341666845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greentreeprep.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73897864288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=omg+full+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000d8ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CA 17484 bytes
SHA-256: 4e9bde7ac6caa86082d68da65606f3d8fd3885b16c60c6da49796d06e02d285f
font_01_sfnt_off000105a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105A6 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 9f8eafaaea98beeea0735f93694bc64de8e4cad1a043ed5070df83368b349a58
font_02_sfnt_off00011dbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1