Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c80eec4dd0b4e0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b7b516368b32e032e61befc408f90273 SHA-1: 615bc0fee88736e0070e06062956c4de365318bf SHA-256: 3c80eec4dd0b4e0b8dbb1db7dcf50b535e63b5a0bb07d2b913aeed19ea86425e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple links to compromised WordPress sites indicates a pattern of leveraging vulnerable infrastructure for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/1223663879.pdf
    • http://hillandbrownfamily.com/clients/76964/File/nudobu.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d0a78e029---5455218840.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087838356069---55959825768.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dc3da2e69---83918004780.pdf
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke6avn8g6f9nn97gs5pukho7j0/winasamiv.pdf
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/99349777302.pdf
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784066309f4---44990729442.pdf
    • http://wagnerpc.com/userfiles/files/zemukovinirawemiliras.pdf
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/84643385456.pdf
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4f8bf791a856ee64c30d6e7b56f5542/29961648659.pdf
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21465417bf---46216201917.pdf
    • https://tasleemdubai.com/userfiles/files/nozozinedemoloripe.pdf
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/vuwufojamu.pdf
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc7fa86ea4bff87406584f675899e155/50347095938.pdf
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/foziwapo.pdf
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/mumaduxazuwibozefonasoxi.pdf
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/du6qtdciob4ukrilbeh4vj4clc/13797941831.pdf
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202106/files/20210627103844621791.pdf
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/nupikewezobonotuleloweg.pdf
    • http://azizolace.cz/images/file/wapuwupexelufinomofowiba.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=bollywood+romantic+song+instrumental+ringtone+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f024.bin
13c69cad90dae4ac7bb8804a9d0903b4d8f95e13d038a042815faa191566ecb9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF024 11064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000109d1.bin
7dd946c48c5d75b3dd5b2dece96e23311e5bd6f355dfc871307eb71187797486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109D1 17104 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013687.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13687 16792 bytes