Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cca34621e8ba83b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 07:10:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9b2d4dc192aaa7b9e8b7ce4271a2a60d SHA-1: b5dae51205f06ea385753d021eae1fb23bc8fec6 SHA-256: 3cca34621e8ba83b343a19e5031eb7c8ab6a4d9152c919de9c70a451db82644b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating a primary function of redirecting users to external sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious link farm designed to lure users to compromised or disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/53500151049.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.jasolasia.com/image/upload/File/67102884646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346ff15c77d---jopeworegage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.net/beta/assets/file/89499389810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buydecor.ru/uploads/files/78475285708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonsakai.com/uploads/files/kawikezilirizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.satit.nrru.ac.th/satit/_Adminis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22967893161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-einheitsloks.de/medien/file/24636495232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://back2wood.de/userfiles/file/vezugetunarutopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/kuvogewowikikotirexejabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lehnerkom.de/images/uploaded/file/42326894937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://termocity.by/pics/files/xoserujopemoronivusaxumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/52225884275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaidongdo3s.com/images/files/wezoxemabowomab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwtactic.com/userfiles/files/duwukomepekivekeguderit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shellserva.nl/docs/Image/file/43241100806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandviewgroupresort.com/upload/files/jasolonenuxopagani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/83922492362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/pedunusotez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolution-dev.com/file_media/file_image/file/38423441298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f9dc23a98f3b226a18f40bfb81f1b0/levagese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec29a46c13---remusowirirelisuwekozuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ddcb9da972014af49f04f4952cdd36e/25018171640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_E6829783A0C75180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba8986c5ee---93963767621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=coc+hack+diamondPDF 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_off0000e4b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCC8 16980 bytes
SHA-256: f2a036743b9ab920776ab1590ee6a88e0051f6414f5859a0f7df481de35668a6
font_02_sfnt_off000128e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E2 10216 bytes
SHA-256: c23238074036531d9ee2469bb9e6cb80719276d30acac3609d0fcd5c4bf3d378