Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cbc1881e0c40225…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-10-20 01:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f648f9403d962004672b38516bb5b723 SHA-1: 96f5a2468e9786352d4e8b5684494990e9e222f7 SHA-256: 3cbc1881e0c40225a2bd2204666f55b8df2fb70f39899e00aa7001f8a6df8abc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly indicates an attempt to lead users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161463a8cc2442---magulojomanogakex.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://yarpaket.ru/userfiles/file/29884707262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/vudujerogepijamovuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/negeruxuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138978b43ca4---zesoredesepibivapikamukem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.com/userfiles/file/45297761030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://regmac.net/userfiles/files/rufirutodinigosefizovaror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tocbirsen.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novexumegisuripavapowode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chemonova.com/FCKeditor/file/33577694842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9f35899c16c87420c15637167b66b00/83605453869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataction.org/demo/dataction/media/19259681643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismet.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonugumokagibowus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miminku4.com/contents/files/11126471634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boek.se/bilder_umeny/File/kavedikimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miryangpension.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20211007_10A705F643056011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.com/php/rs/filesupload/file/55423356337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/gowode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc1645a6be---wolinubasesiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://davidhammerstein.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69154302006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/zutobulawovogopigus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonerofset.com/userfiles/file/86928537043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.org/sites/default/files/file/xifegagokidudejobatujeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eegbiofeedback-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/93529396172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebcardkw.com/ckeditor-ckfinder-integration/uploads/files/fixasawuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-malkov.ru/uploads/files/22778816775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/RhDyTiV0TgQ/uplcv?utm_term=cuadernillo+actividades+de+lectoescritura+para+primer+gradoPDF 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_off0000ca7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA7C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e293.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE293 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 2e1bf25e8dfcb0f2da995c72e7dbd346ab31503864571172e01a977b9ae3d900
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC17 19868 bytes
SHA-256: 729237c15c2624752f010c80d8ec5d3cff9d89a2d9c73eed1ddb01677219d286