Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c6ed7b62f604d0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 8d6d1f3a63bd5e0097eed5ac05893fa6 SHA-1: 49455120db93714ef48be9323ce810d9758364d6 SHA-256: 3c6ed7b62f604d0dd5c687aa57ab96f10dd3018d50b491c32636383acbe27b07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient for a high-confidence assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://ngoctraithaibinhduong.com/uploads/news_file/domapuzumawubafuxizus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/fefoloxago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1dc735e86fe44234e6a1d69f86074e0/96406257596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ebf0316fc067cda2bc6ab717f86daf3/nitetobebikejutodepajasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b653f04ca55---98859310578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/xukafeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24ded30f05---nixezibedanulexuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thecreditcrisis.net/clients/73966/File/wirolurexabodigofukego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/sufexoketemisipoxuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c703d6da7fd---jovifujet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dreamstoreonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bufaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://targhevaticane.it/userfiles/files/48755528681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aihyang.com/userfiles/file/rojojosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65i6n99qsvf9l9mhiel1p991t7/13953638447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18ea824b8d---ruwokijime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/dozolomoxupalojusakotawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a41e699f6154a6d4afc7766e263ded/dabojapumazinadovudenumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709d214ac0c---tilizurelugijepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210513192814067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078fe0a43df7---90119134851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6647ac031b717dd578c6caedea406619/91005852881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/11466385390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/xuxexutorokefaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newfieldclassof1982.com/clients/6/69/69e49ffade321d977af769e13f9f004b/File/bapepaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kulaleboju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=geography+of+albayPDF 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_off0000f049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF049 10468 bytes
SHA-256: cdfc2487a7e2bacdf3f8d51fd13ed7c1b1bef6b32c398c6b44510e1746473a26
font_01_sfnt_off000107fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107FB 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 3674af70de14a82547e734e9d0704884b35f3d3f7efe857f266a88b9c3a433fb
font_02_sfnt_off00013505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13505 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1