Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cb9429a19904d4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.4 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:41:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: eaa4fda343eacd9d011f21a179b429d3 SHA-1: dff523b82bda98a70ac599332dacc05a840169bc SHA-256: 3cb9429a19904d4fd0bfc2e7b18e00177e9446816719555c27025923bb3d64d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient to infer a malicious attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9819

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 http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160818d0d92644---59095513097.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/vakogerevuwabipajafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608536cb82ae0---razijinotafaxezev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/bumusefuvupigaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a0ea1c8a5---numage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/rebukegitaravafofidiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080afda091bb---31014857077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d97da60378---bovobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abd6be37dbd392e752e042cbc838a0b3/ruzeviwosatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.org/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/16074447071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62a3fc0b96---lepujafekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608262f1de02d---10745201140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38398198930a30ef8d01ab0c5b7fc550/46256817518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf16e44d0b78686ae2af45ee37f2c8bf/67214671880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/96178200223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608275e970c92---83064760891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5ec1634f5---67721250775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a494af92919---dujimomojexenipadokutit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192e2d945533de5716551cb46bb9dd2d/54987720440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-et-traditions.com/actualites/file/52873463665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/tezezizuwuzizoxilov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bad9ec0d4cabc31a6f7ce210e9c59faa/85115495292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jahanchart.ir/data/files/file/papavinulega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/53791194502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.harnoordesigns.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inoem1i4hm6s9f30uau3edhit4/xisopawepumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/ruxuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+compound+on+hydrogenation+gives+ketonePDF 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_off00014cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000164cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164CD 19268 bytes
SHA-256: 09270bcdb94300a5c199ee96cd4431fc575675477c57e706dbe56d4e48840367
font_02_sfnt_off000195df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195DF 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 77c448e66b1504ef8c8729436c6c0d6d2bf57351312c0a87e27fdf96139ee259