Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c69ae30ee3200b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 23:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f0831c91cf1190c65505ee09df3e0068 SHA-1: ba15ba1bc79749451eaa54568e7ddb572079cb00 SHA-256: 3c69ae30ee3200b7c8138c3c8693eb7de997e01c1a1def13c39e8bc739919799
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or directing users to malicious content. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised or disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://studiotecnicomartani.eu/userfiles/files/wisivinagusixeme.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f583b4e1689848c511de8fb733daed70/fugatok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5b3a7e837f---zozivaderimupokewojizatik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7477364d12---76860052229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607865176af0d---noxijunetafilojibavemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/tusigafitewavareno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charityweiss.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087076fb36b5---lemudugakinevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be3b16f8ce9641e6fdfd2378b51609e/magugebanexifovujulogomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c220b69603f---1344291015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vgqun9ptsjo977q3u508r15f6d/19270079343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/171558438846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cupd9s3ema14aro6hfvv4t8jv5/vusemudodidanalefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0b7ad5d97549a6dc2b830e3187274f/5315095158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e8e96f8857ee406f005a0864fd553d2/91199770708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d3ccf9992f5364698562675124b701b/dolarazuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3rqt0smfqinuvkcvim613dat7/lezasanebimibitew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/58005288529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432a7399b002bc95feffde3528e62989/nopinafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32c744ebd9b6972d5a533c96242c24e/73626169289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/facb5332e3c349b63674bd6c86c470f2/zidolaxamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79c7c5205bc1709a704a684ec66a8fc6/87248671916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvarenda.ru/upload/file/661253286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://werkkledingverkoop.nl/images/docman/files/21907912112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=interview+questions+and+answers+for+freshers+in+bankPDF 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_off00010638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10638 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011e4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E4A 17020 bytes
SHA-256: c35526e305f644d9f8a8d55ca24dd563df79545f3a8e4f39b07a4ccc008b450a
font_02_sfnt_off00014a7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A7E 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 3ac8f29a7ebc9cc60fed769f6408487e959bd91c835bcb6c83a5fa249419f04b