Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cc15132a7e3499b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-08-01 11:20:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c550a8d0224d70ed456b71562f0f9d4a SHA-1: 6e19f8f830fdff260f3fb71193698c66dee752bd SHA-256: 3cc15132a7e3499b7b6dfd2b46638032dd515d73aa82641cb581ca6b5eac60c6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=missing+letters+in+words+worksheets+for+kindergarten PDF link annotation
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087b0d20a808---93930196117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee34db1b88a---4393296133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cck-brno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83782069491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdce8434fec---85638243088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3af10ed914---7727007069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c78531ecba7f0b0bdb8b8d84ea807f5/14217018991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/medomibefumikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinhadventure.com/uploads/file/zeradixawedidar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c660f32421---baximaraxumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e245013166bb2f0c34b9bed0a10fdfe0/65491053158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160929018008fe---17226159555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/53973970783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/20302961835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tzounakos-insurance.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86728929757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c73980f732---1429923628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkettes.org/clients/b/b3/b30d687fb0e6fb0c44210170e51784d9/File/bujademovatamifuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ucmpot0mgd58hgklmu87fkh0n/32442548229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a17c45a688001af55e0a9b5fff2ef6e3/fexerukivoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/21449356871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/90059763338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/zudajimobowutome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/noginepevebuxarofofagemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-inter.com/file_media/file_image/file/75084541823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melinterior.ru/userfiles/files/83055451706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cb70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB70 10804 bytes
SHA-256: a394178ffd6883d73f51f6b504b6da8f915db9083e99634c34bde4ee3f6e59f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000e42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC3C 16604 bytes
SHA-256: a0356571b481f8d4a254dfdad70799ff2bd51362a9c817e89811f29f95060e32