Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cd1f91cd0b15988…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-24 08:06:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a51b3eed05336d468ce4eec1796f0206 SHA-1: 26168d77f194020ac5b86c5e2de108ab8e254258 SHA-256: 3cd1f91cd0b15988ba1ab006124d9f33b840562dddc3d9a364d62f3525ae1cd1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of numerous unknown URLs hosted on various domains indicates a broad distribution or evasion strategy.

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3b2fc1dc5---wisafakufarewawunolezos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f964a44770d3c9ab8bb0e087c18060/genetanodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomanzella.com/userfiles/files/ginurejejinodabizep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193ac251b0cb8afa2c7ea87ea1768f5c/27177499766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymexco.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7543959459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wegofa.com/userfiles/file/11261581670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8c2889f10e---gadosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southwestlooms.com/admin/userfiles/files/15582575505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210626_7E6E58B4356F5553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/8932191273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609886b0c15d7---mutomamaruvusifidamuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esz.jp/img/editor/files/50545839038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uss100.com/clients/5/56/562308f4da1da23328cfd9e5c9f3e68f/File/wegoraliwujadejajisamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210530210820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5153bc69a---jejefetit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7e3445de55045497ed184850a7b8d84/16824483792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicofrisoli.com/userfiles/files/91408257460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdseoulps.com/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/kunalesodekulefolitulivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee28c69bb4---vulirisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eaecc2b68e---64954066887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/144786e378c3b1273bbb255b36f4ef22/67163221621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/89391544571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be16efc2f19---pazezevasiwaresuzikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e2a97ea0b---suwusowogurafoxoretu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korvet-sp.ru/userfiles/file/7603267057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+gameboy+emulator+on+iphone+2020PDF 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_off0001121f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1121F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012a31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A31 17240 bytes
SHA-256: 10a766550a99120a6dd2d939e262cca7d5ce9f1eeb5e9f31da6e134b3b562bab
font_02_sfnt_off00015740.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15740 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 61903b63028807c40efd015d31837d98d7f3d38a7cc8fde7413521bfd16784ce