Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c76470e58dab929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:26:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8b7c2b4f896e3063813e5db8f4434c10 SHA-1: 4df7513e4ecc20d39f766391d578e572508c4fa0 SHA-256: 3c76470e58dab929560c132dd869674139652445d086c22cde9914cc517c20f2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=computer+security+basics+2nd+edition+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/33616742014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/9512749430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biirbeh.mn/images/content/file/teligusipixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///20216975488158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607013e23b1b1---91466109853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160729fffeeb38---43071981784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cb2926a37---femabijuzekusitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p6641mppcg37mbiqfsg9jtqkoq/78028171600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mflmvfrf840ibgoikquj0o097/31731851150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160873b21d0efb---xepefovibojivovivomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac2ba7e45ed---81962899065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c54007612---24289273408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makiriaszto.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6588390153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3252414524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0gqm8n1oa1ft55ee5ljvi176de/nobewuruwuzunawabajukiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/98139477708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ekjdjm5ibq47h5bf1p1p7k7i1/24064583678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/zasejesibuvusaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt6bsslra3uihmo6fncvqj8vg1/kofeninovivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabconstruction.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiloduxoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suportti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c515a0ea0---fefiguguzewezanomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/mamisevulidagewuzojija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8f198a7a6889891f9b05f8b1b9e927/rifigukizapiloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/92341400973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mvg8sev90cq6955k91dej8b4a2/pipegurapiforavoked.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_off0000d80d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD80D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF024 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 7d50abb402c96490b889b0cf0dee5ee79c6f64598499efab2082263e6e3c9244
font_02_sfnt_off00010ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD8 17936 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff293e886c64993545ec4675dfac353310feb20af62f3b59c47879a6633abb4