Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cc7bd662d7d0f80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac1c33f80863c357e8f7c590b861f539 SHA-1: 3c2e37f38817dee5e6a8c6cd19b2df82f4facc12 SHA-256: 3cc7bd662d7d0f803b0978f96bb4dace156000a62a9bbf57451fc6852aaa6194
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of multiple external URIs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mbd+super+refresher+class+11+political+science+pdf+download
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed9e23f803---jetenopobu.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a180297c6a1---97618693614.pdf
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c676c6ef0f6---19778339965.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b477ef332bd---ravilanonoj.pdf
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160850dcdc5663---58354349993.pdf
    • https://limmaginebistrot.com/file/90648843.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7742570a284f3988fc936db7243c9b95/talomudefezanoli.pdf
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caf07858a1---5561895348.pdf
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/sakakogalukikos.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/dijukipuxumel.pdf
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088bf8d673a3---wugonakelawuzafasakaw.pdf
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e7e113168---76597554932.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb907d3766---fuzixaxupuduzevixakij.pdf
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/94044357635.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cffa47d8b---rodazazufokikofomamapa.pdf
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/vofelikotawajat.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/842f61fddbb901721e09bec7b864a791/vevagefageburigivewuz.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160869dcc6d62c---89487320713.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d461f120f4b---9993314262.pdf
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/30591070476.pdf
    • http://renovfab-menuiserie.com/userfiles/file/73016761336.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_off0000c9ad.bin
50bc6c4abf650f71b8dcb80b3c7f2f9e053117e18bef5cf20e3cb1f0c418a00e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AD 11088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e350.bin
f93036b6aa4f281b42ff7280cfba196abdab0315fb980766eeb31818daba5026
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE350 16824 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010edf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EDF 16792 bytes