Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cd3a3480615779a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:57:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b7097e74eac9a4caea4b5a252b2b535a SHA-1: d6a941c4326b4a79482af23b7f3438d5a7302b77 SHA-256: 3cd3a3480615779a1df308688f2b04aa80f47c4fe1afd718ecdab3c015282e00
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to distribute further payloads or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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=equation+of+a+cone PDF link annotation
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb7ac992c7eab80a1526bf941cd53e2/katakatojenutigovefub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/34544301635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66e91633085eea3447fe697dd94541aa/dutubode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alacarte-grafik.de/userfiles/file/55656956403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngeqmnp8mpms7ql8r9r04rkdhm/78995088182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/gikifikuzatapodudotezuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c725f28bc49cf24dbadf08fcd722c2f/9544501155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babamore.com/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210619135230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/dagolojupevuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb04dafbaf---fapape.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://dailynewsodia.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/bedirikufilonopivolotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjmfgxfollow.morefriendship.com/upload/files/miwekugojiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ed9e23f803---jetenopobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/dapapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4807e569f8a134a715a43f569d6ef87/jinowadivefewamebize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pecsikult.hu/files/file/66757624645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4172abb62---deredexixagutuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/50696010427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzfcw.com/file/fkimg/file/59641795435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/bimefivugeladon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/47946947551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5389f2625022d0cd0137778bc2b8668/91336534840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jdjfjx.com/images/upload/File/gugenutunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diarch.in/WYSIWYGImage/file/21656687356.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_off0000cbee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBEE 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 997ad3ad55b401b03abb862a6a4e7d257dceb198b62c60a7c2204170fce7cafe
font_01_sfnt_off0000e30c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30C 18044 bytes
SHA-256: 4daf72ee999460f4212e36476fd8f50c593a061410a583df67c2d8ffad4118a9
font_02_sfnt_off0001122f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1