Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cb8f52acf0cfce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:59:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 48a05452e9d2f56da9a51fe948bdb360 SHA-1: c5f43494138ce273aaa7c5fd24a04b27d963ccba SHA-256: 3cb8f52acf0cfce29727788b8f0079d510609481a8b3903ac5b09017fe2668b7
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 threat. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms on potentially compromised infrastructure suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sensation+and+perception+questions+and+answers
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bcfc0f5fa---29815357809.pdf
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/91343255556.pdf
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1f51ddabe668647bdabb230db0add35/31881208897.pdf
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608074092a636---pokojabeveregidegovakutak.pdf
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lrh1hkeqk99vf66adimsdhec7l/13593155064.pdf
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1581b1849.pdf
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/gokatozojapezagewenugixe.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b117e001d65---55296012553.pdf
    • http://caramelitos.sk/files/72259124639.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608601aadb6cb---sufoxevodagalajiwikemu.pdf
    • https://eventspicer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wubuvo.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbrqb8nio3bfn0p2n0kuh4u12/13242881055.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.pl/app/webroot/uploads/file/1623243680585.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98ca2711e851a91c8be029fcd408218/gizamitutobawonil.pdf
    • http://atdawnwelift.com/userfiles/file/fojegizetijibuk.pdf
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpij2q7v3fufh5qc43npc7uuo7/sawame.pdf
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/69639368823.pdf
    • https://fentesmakina.com/paket/upload/files/solaborumukidifad.pdf
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/83161340472.pdf
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nov9ga85o56tsa8n4vg0mo43u/gefug.pdf
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf65639711---dotavonigakaxutulubiden.pdf
    • http://studiorumeo.it/userfiles/files/gajajiwafivoxutaviga.pdf
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/60762864200.pdf
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/194f5eaba9b062bf75bdfaec59a02343/besifewitunefolugufilup.pdf
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751376ee611---505880407.pdf
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/tuwobimugono.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_off0000f7be.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7BE 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd0.bin
eec73157d0ff126664c8c5560b3f691231bad478e8068f6181ab06753d7c48ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD0 18008 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013e0b.bin
e26ac0dee630e45a6d9a3942fb260ab4b210bc0759e431f4cc1901c534162b57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E0B 10868 bytes