Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cac59909e0226cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:53:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 62160f0ace4a9b0b6019b518976c3317 SHA-1: ab0e3935b5d396db6655ab81f35c572dd85a036a SHA-256: 3cac59909e0226cdb4fa44bf95ea9527a821e998c3a144591081c7354c86bcae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on compromised websites, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing campaigns. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads suggests a coordinated effort to spread malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://drthchowdary.net/userfiles/file/nalirafunagiromezadoregat.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608800b78f6f3---3482237834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611312f38e448---mewojiraludul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/nevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79a4e2d11697b21dcc9e53a4246e516d/17383001850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0cd6bfa965eb87485441a101be3f228/31894644030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micro-churches.net/uploads/file/sebineg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffcl1u7hedip2959ub7ffief47/15802360634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf624543615---7287259162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432745bde8ed6aa082654b4148f682f5/83369294137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogarestudio.com/userfiles/file/guluviluzozegepigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/wijodulapexekigaxobiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanayapim.com/rsm/files/12812018236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buno57u06uiujg6f5osq3b3ds0/14725340071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd38044eea---68912255020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamacros.com/upload/file/masekosozevukala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/98978522213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdc4b44f757---xudajovovesagofixonawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slide-bearing.com/d/files/72451646327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82264744223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mulubonakujobulepivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c19c338401d---48256981955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6drn78kh1kb3i17j29ubn2dg1/70804946605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e315230f51064de1493aea330654946/bodurupowexunarokezema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeminyerkaplama.com/upload/ckfinder/files/jixavibupometefumagutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/78480905055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=engineering+physics+nanotechnology+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_off0000bddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBDDB 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 0c4acc736204ff47ed20dce2a27b3ecab9e00555bc4e5edeeb2c66b2e6540a35
font_01_sfnt_off0000d71f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD71F 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 4e9a2f5a7a8d952acae92a5d741931cf45f029fc33969a9784d618145f75d283
font_02_sfnt_off0000ffeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1