Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ccbb795fe5d7a8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-07-16 22:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 970e097afa09b9bb3cb6b7009fec8e45 SHA-1: d802d9a26269c88e21ba7feca78efd6b406da0d4 SHA-256: 3ccbb795fe5d7a8a2056e61da05b05e163c34408116723fbe79d61a44b5f0112
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, a common tactic for phishing or distributing further malware. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/funopafadudevibowukiret.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9789ff1c9709aae0d77761ac3f79c0b/87497013118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f2fcde236---788030230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6r38os6htl7kn6ap2qficlfn2/39468486872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/pesagenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6d5baee5b40680ecc24dde0b5ebdbc8/22345256369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b76e9371603---sinikudosuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimkhimientrung.com/uploads/image/files/34612808079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096377ddef01---fupujatonozodemus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c17b104fb---71262807599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080567345880---sepesenoridibenedif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93c55c9184---kigunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpkgoodframeupvc.com/userfiles/files/58263755928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021050407341270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vihqh9hqg90t9uoquns3j18gm3/setaxosewesidoloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1pr0v3qqfl5jf3dka06sin67la/3340895762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e5605be72---97090998391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/49712886540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921a977c100---3445521623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctcs841vl0pjv7scavqtb1pg8o/12684568048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dodici12.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t9k900i2qdlv029aceqst33bg3/71920888346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blbr365.com/userfiles/file/1622731520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47359685226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=associated+laguerre+differential+equationPDF 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_off0000d789.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD789 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFA0 10880 bytes
SHA-256: b12ff11340659b7a6a226316dea67feb57e55311b60c7a3c8dcde39dba7bb446
font_02_sfnt_off00010864.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10864 17320 bytes
SHA-256: 07bc1068ff78b29cff7464371806ada86f0620b544ff5e9a1432b1a85d2aab6d