Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c3b12ed0048488b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.1 KB Created: 2021-07-28 00:59:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f67773d825e6a09d6e5a347cbd188c91 SHA-1: 957b40225ef2271173d6c281bb5ebf63ae5f1ac3 SHA-256: 3c3b12ed0048488b606eae62644470a081466d7083dfe921e9fedfcdd7dce807
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd07a1d681d626b39c17536fcb331164/tajumokupexofo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/wijosimelarufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ed72e4b17---zarovotaripeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/madesomojotigumazoxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd8a2621c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/xixomagesudokilipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81220631519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88pge3kq9k3a0rcopbpnia5r0b/91637910041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/39931110131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workcoop.org/fckeditor/userimages/file/20210706214216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/17901954640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7945de6ad007fb5adb625c8d5812dec/tupobubewafivamizixasoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/83927664983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gearforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29pl4a34eqlbkni9uut7fa5gbp/nusotanabiwotixugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d98661924041a641f598e33d6bd55f2b/nigilovad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/23162260141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/66934156094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/suxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawa757.com/uploads/files/79986454838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a7362a2d4d---rapimifezunafedaxaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078320da2537---gilolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51www.org/uploadfile/file/839dd8da1120e1495425e67918da51ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://better-pharma.com/images/file/files/vomafimiroxodekadom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a87136d24e3---zewaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea24764a4c---22278678987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/596i2k5t82ttd8eoagtsvdarn3/8933696707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenfountains.com/uplds/file/83405996498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=%C2%BFqui%C3%A9nes+est%C3%A1n+en+las+fotos+%C2%BFd%C3%B3nde+est%C3%A1n+%C2%BFqu%C3%A9+hora+es+%C2%BFqu%C3%A9+comen+y+qu%C3%A9+bebenPDF 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_off0000fd7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD7D 18140 bytes
SHA-256: 7c3dbaf7e82be923cff8fd572584d7e809c26e633c00a8fccc855ceb035bd020
font_01_sfnt_off00012bc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC5 11768 bytes
SHA-256: c154a686f20a40065c820245d8c785e861bf167fbdec37b00d24405834a45b81
font_02_sfnt_off0001467e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1467E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1