Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c7ac3f18b535c1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:35:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 739dae99731428cd3d61331cc74f8f5a SHA-1: 38bb6bd9f3b3bf735387747ee0cc3f9d018f1243 SHA-256: 3c7ac3f18b535c1fc1dea182ee5cccd8b712ef23c974860b7aa0c031ef2dc877
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that leverage external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://bjzjygj.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/goxizofogi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f2682e2e0---60689539044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b26beccd3---31832695329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/om0ge5tdci7j0irkvddsd51ukd/vovuxitile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/87838905552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946995a68e7---39747098212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/fagonorexelozubiripomen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28150cffb059e679054c1f1a9cd74a17/warolejusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609087a5ce84f---88066605116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ce9f3cd02---wawuzumuxosisogotib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-21/20210521231953596342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/rufazufaximuzuruluke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdacqifci44t3o670f4nm3hdh0/bubulebeditufiwoxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://athensviptour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4441563c68d48265b61dc2d03090da0/todum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/59070996420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2f40f3c155b7fe3716b344a6c79bf50/72314464461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/14549075834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/62406146356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9fee8690f4e1d424a7d6c51f142fc7d/37969568069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/pukipexugowive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2p3ot6esgvud0e394d90e1nlm/57200738016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcf84cb7558006194a5f344416210462/gedepijirujijow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.com/userfiles/file/nugagalaxuzalanato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.varisistanbul.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d190c004d2---76140465141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiloverca.com/uploads/files/lamofixegedorewapesofobep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/23916371386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=class+9+science+guide+pdfPDF 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_off0000deab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C2 10776 bytes
SHA-256: cd34c3239fe5bf4f0d9dbe30e1cce775628ac92d06a97ca5cff0d5704bd3ceef
font_02_sfnt_off00010f71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F71 17052 bytes
SHA-256: c0c2823b6ca320358449a4e223d67f717661d164808e3e38b0414b8ec52fd8a9