Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ca9900ad68a0282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

142.6 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 53e76caf1443907bbf7dadf6c3b33641 SHA-1: 0f1cc7b5248a8b033e4e0c6c7248047fa371a260 SHA-256: 3ca9900ad68a02829fc038e4d8dfab59e2e7fc607658b6159866ca2a11176ca7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection

The PDF document contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm likely used for phishing or distributing further malware. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=related+entity+definition
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f6cb19c880e79199f3da93b77f48516/pekozetafajogupenetevuvaz.pdf
    • http://opalsolar.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e29c90f853---36517773337.pdf
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dp81gofmidr0b0sh1qn9gqr9v7/wetamipalunopotowawebeka.pdf
    • http://insureatkk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48644273214.pdf
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b4b4dd97cf72ddf0ab06928317cc98/pogivu.pdf
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/70810116614.pdf
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/94932953493.pdf
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c42ee6e05e---4919483657.pdf
    • http://envigest.cz/upload/file/95668381314.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vjq0593uagnc91qqungtsofktt/pewogezevugid.pdf
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/rupox.pdf
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c91285cf7f2---tidevifalemifuwijef.pdf
    • http://hattingtoemrerogsnedker.dk/userfiles/file/28040957160.pdf
    • https://najlepsze-w-polsce.pl/uploads/73457876343.pdf
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/87548299109.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3809d5c8be---guvebe.pdf
    • http://ordineveterinarivenezia.eu/userfiles/files/dopifokagebemejup.pdf
    • http://matsonconstruction.net/userfiles/file/muvomabugovolepifabete.pdf
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/benibuxixatoverazu.pdf
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96c4bd2017b364e8a86fd6618bfa5b2e/89688792390.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b881088e1a78e02e53361cf7347a86e2/83004812150.pdf
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/85338661713.pdf
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8e923771a3a3d72b89772d2f56df49/92046384960.pdf
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e43c9d68ec1a698cbe7efffe6d6cc076/fenuwujibular.pdf
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160cccf03ba977---kixidodo.pdf
    • 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_off0001cc81.bin
d16f2c0c90f2f91eff983239c215a67713212fd0aa4ff776ed4a4315dc282563
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CC81 18368 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001fbde.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FBDE 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000213f5.bin
50ae4bdb02f8929385465088934135e4670d8d84c58ad43a4f1eea1582ab66b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x213F5 10236 bytes