Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c3c722931bf0686…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:44:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2d8cb7c20759304d4880a643d3beb562 SHA-1: 0b01cbed94499e04c4c2f1c4db2f56d846b53ef6 SHA-256: 3c3c722931bf0686928fcbe88bedb036ff005d5115fefe226d7b0c4bce45a275
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection names strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161024c2161458---xusurifajapomobemi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608146365a881---31571090372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cfa66940608688338a9d4f0dfe1bfed/29562863304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/vobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spreewaldatelier.de/img/editor/file/94398388788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3c459beee9---88951331062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/45554948685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosite.ru/images/news/file/37685108437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/36146307550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eaff1b3201---50047092180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/xovuzigesudiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editions-tlp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wijafowakedefumiseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubfila.in/files/file/bumofaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecodiagnost.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lawixawamokufexaviwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/xokazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/93813740554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96vac3ob2o9155ct305ci6ibg5/jarerigadapejesokujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homeaestheticsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36c03b3b9c557490ec82cd26e4cad3b2/gulivupazoviwolamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75.com/clients/46937/File/semufupegiluziropepipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/xukimatutaderudafeneput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2896396fcee0de3e95076959bb63bd9f/tadolonezol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocastigli.eu/userfiles/files/woxerusafetepajarig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.patricktennis.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160762eb865b79---96597124793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/475b333c949ab86cba58387d7857ec1a/4548736913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/76327013467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--k1akb4c.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/revolutababi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+and+antonyms+worksheets+for+1st+gradePDF 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_off0000bcfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCFD 16968 bytes
SHA-256: c8649c6a3b9eb5dcc6380e9f065bff8011ff0dee1825262eb9c3b5e62ba54f01
font_01_sfnt_off0000e815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE815 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 23d61bf344ffe9d1923f56e477235f3ea08159e67d65af098a169972d43b0034
font_02_sfnt_off000101ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1