Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c4717ac087c88b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 04:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 03520ecf5d1e113261dd0f4d31ebdfc6 SHA-1: 08cea6e7cdcd9add3b82cdf8b5924a64dd7a8e72 SHA-256: 3c4717ac087c88b17a077051d2566839e0917ca402537fdf8a85ed6f61804e9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and a link to a compromised CMS upload storage further supports a malicious purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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 https://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chemistry+a+level+data+booklet+2020
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b65ed165901---wasusatisad.pdf
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f6f2e50118---pujasedivus.pdf
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b0dc1aa00---39496061328.pdf
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/lupaxuduvuz.pdf
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/zajokodefezomazum.pdf
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c3aba7ca2482c7b0218f27d66a9b1b8/parirerebubobutejux.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c90e5327f9---divub.pdf
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/919b5dfb84821f22fe0829351d1e5fd9/52630298372.pdf
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1251846b94---45374972863.pdf
    • http://asja-doll.ru/userfiles/file/33743332643.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cb306ad61---85798012.pdf
    • https://rockyshairsalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g634okvoqu6vakr3dlj5uefthu/wowebojefijasitupapud.pdf
    • http://cnc-soustruzeni.cz/files/file/dewomojapumenasevunolokej.pdf
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/540a3e6c82645e77cafc071552be5c34/50333974112.pdf
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpad1lijit8lrq6f6g2911soq0/19301557093.pdf
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098af0ac7bcf---58628607729.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccb1e13deae58a4592c37a6946b66faf/87432127309.pdf
    • https://mayxaydungthienlong.com/uploads/files/files/41576731443.pdf
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c6750bf63799df37034371c3be15d66/jidilenipuw.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9ifucsvsdn220atnlklaiqcnk/jezunimojifodufikaxa.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/122f394de4f238b3999505f65b7756c1/58888421454.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001038e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038E 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ba0.bin
b9b8d00ac557a8bbacafbabac63cf05a34fa15814d3170988914e2a772b99ada
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA0 19028 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014d14.bin
9ed044b7d172f66d595b334f037e7f7035f35c0964cc8f0dadc8d9b66ab91a30
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D14 11096 bytes