Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c95f629e4822edb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-06-24 18:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: b3421690dae917f5bf264d55df832ea6 SHA-1: 69b6ed169cccabca0e9961c6bbb9f40e75d189a4 SHA-256: 3c95f629e4822edb6a1d60dc2ce8ef0f8ce413ebb414215ef98675d5adf387ee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded URLs and the heuristic findings of 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+print+a4+on+letter+size+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160795f2bd4b55---malimepufidufekajamojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f1a6def4f5---95428665415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ooft6eqr836vuf1t8nqjbdco3/83358348996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84fe49faf3---66731451093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501224811946486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee7eb299b8e00b1b1674351abba706da/79872325100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pcb5rqfmvbmskmhmvj9ni4oh7j/62649435434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rancrpal3rrgb7rjs0uuj1acil/rinefirirogewufajabijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ea713c4ae6---tulutativabosej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160918207640e1---nodupuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6s9tmlo6ie96r3e270fcehq5d/23453029306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fe69a0915---86482114082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b842a51707a---89310137787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af03a66db52ab2b4d3cfbfcffb6d3c4c/juguwadelemupudajof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071ed307969d---9915091010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCAD 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 75404f57c870c0ea1f9df17d774dfc2ea2fb7e810bf9ff41bcb06f00c7a1b86f
font_01_sfnt_off0000de99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE99 1800 bytes
SHA-256: e9a5a1f6ed95b1e3669933bb00002ad32a1708c3e0b735191cad5e02368a6c7d
font_02_sfnt_off0000e727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE727 11504 bytes
SHA-256: 10b231fca3ad5b72df54317341b1fa973a89fe53f64ff00d6ce3889f7ff0106d