Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c865112eed87344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.4 KB Created: 2021-06-30 21:05:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c5eca43074c4828d423ae61b4b79aebe SHA-1: d0a54f3829209ca944475ddc568bfe940ae00329 SHA-256: 3c865112eed8734454b4646e2d4769adf249d71d397ebf4d90ee5ef1aa7d4221
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, strongly indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=insert+query+in+sql PDF link annotation
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01fcf16416f00e385bb5bd541e92209a/navelibuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/visipunefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkmdc.com/aversystem.com/userfiles/file/13177902208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/zitawibelebisofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/bixajeritevenavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5heg2cad20ug8ldt6n54i2mm8q/geguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakol.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39150632457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/fawigam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5904b8545801d0a5ad31b29c6ed34377/dulipirowotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f43d6cdd364a797c93db03dba60ee954/pixaxasibelesome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0047ebf846---kajejijuxuzawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1c6c59b806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afc09aa1329---39850158774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphalexander.com/uploads/files/musumegawepezumobevozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b26a77ebbe3---34888143129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad998f34d660ad740601ff9267de8f24/nosipupejox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/vogigaduwanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d647b256348---ziratilabupurumaduxirafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160810420c84b0---44133661262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gildiamasterov.ru/userfiles/file/76168241373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sns.hu/_user/file/rubunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a15b63c35---nudakidisamofuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984583ca5a6---vosexurifikada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3743923a484a663e3a7a5e9e11ad4971/bobaluvumoja.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fba7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000113b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B4 1700 bytes
SHA-256: 15171638d69c9281a983de8a04f8d213e5ed86d33053034f6aa0dd130c4010d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011bcc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BCC 10128 bytes
SHA-256: cc00283a6a708cd7d461dea270f21d06de8b836ff67baa0d0d623254f148c4e3
font_03_sfnt_off00013284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13284 17840 bytes
SHA-256: b3c06e3604ba2109f88f7910b8868d9637651b09f20922c42d580feb2eac0b12