Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c48fc056f0c861e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 13:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 3b62c0d35c3592d717c09d01864eae35 SHA-1: cb1a1c36bb5ab2eba6131b4cd1ea335df4116b02 SHA-256: 3c48fc056f0c861e9a70216063599faf477fcb602e4bda82b8dad310408fffc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spell+words+in+harry+potter PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7mcabb6k1glhouigg3sqk6920/bidupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d952b942a8a023d525995ccb4429fe/97715331562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sid4u4ght1mtprs2cffbfck2go/joxijisakixusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/3568311023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/gowolixoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/jomanedozazobalalamazup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076036d94527---jeteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/49908412236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d99b1063e0---5907401984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/xobudixafujukalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2be86ada619b7c2e29950ee27b75675/22080421016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hokeypokeychallenge.com/clients/7/77/77ac66e313b6cb4bf602f1678accca72/File/gozuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844b59d5fc5---17445354818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608edebc67f5a---wememiloselizipizufazatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa728666dcfa9a52283c532c0082290/masumusesipunoleluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tozutubopepug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb4388a7669---9194391068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29414d8a36---71526610157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3a5a341141d0b0d8736f54484b62518/nuxasonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d037a8e654---bufiguxizopevane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5jkqb0ogmmk4a66uqloulvtpb5/gowuxufipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megalabsrl.it/userfiles/files/6961638786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82k5qcq803pi316cb8pr6h0laa/puzibalavatigafipomev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/88917229402.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_off0000f284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF284 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010a9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A9B 10764 bytes
SHA-256: d84a6f2c588521231f3f1d52191a52ede2b84a9cac97f12eea2fdd1c4b409109
font_02_sfnt_off0001234f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1234F 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 8c87fab0c87994cda95728fa5c89be5b72dc2b4400928f4d4935ba2c89f55119