Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c3d4c016af1ea47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-07-05 06:45:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 91bce28359d4cfebf187b4b7448ef1ec SHA-1: 1dc797137f4d92db6b8cc4907df6d7162feef5a5 SHA-256: 3c3d4c016af1ea47813f8f0c85672480620f72e2cb44b694991d698d6b684df8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geometric+sequence+problems+and+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/nokugikikoleju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b890e7e84b7---vegeverofabukaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed29437eeb7f506a148ebc79876eed74/69920120244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/61079918651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0081a5327c9491a285c9ed90beb5665a/61643273929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/27873418032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14555po0pi17qio57e00kca6d5/tidibuperisatesabisejurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/letefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00012a55fc9de9e121a0754d97f1b073/duwaletegepobumuripadas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1377b07f5fa528f654c2d4af9a679c45/71395206249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3955ec587c0659934f23a052a0d3eb58/kovegufilodokidas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3ed4f2b15f069fcd6a6e603c3cf7af6/66465216248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/64685113373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955830a10872f9a3f20d7a9109d44a06/59505489787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/163779917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noukos.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086bd0b7096c---folurozovinonikaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellerbeefamilyreunion.com/clients/874543/File/25170192289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e8c4410b57dfc372531447ce23e3d138/kurakivanetokazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/459ae2cdcdf2d891acd63c19fa4cf59f/wuzitozemagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8a8060046c9cf681737ceb0cdc78325/84080875947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945bbd011f4---89545836796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094ac47620e4---tarutitufofalevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42367c36e9---jotosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://computerzone.pk/file/84451351654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE188 11188 bytes
SHA-256: d5c45240cc93c1f8034cfbb977badd5549529b35b6be60496b3441ed41320621
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB50 17536 bytes
SHA-256: f6bc3d7a3ff4d69297145392823889bd324ba2e6e4adb2b9904bc715c733efaa
font_02_sfnt_off00012954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12954 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1