Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cd8641a9f5140ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:36:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 30585db70db454c21eeec415298557bd SHA-1: 5e996af9521e6e1dfdf1259efb14221007b76558 SHA-256: 3cd8641a9f5140caeb582579f3398fe15f6c063fb5bbf1ff64c96bc6318c6a99
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable or compromised hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, likely phishing or a trojan. The document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content, rather than delivering a direct payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210909190428.pdf
    • https://poolpoint.be/uploads/file/31340798984.pdf
    • https://5a.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52899481868.pdf
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/nikewirider.pdf
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b3cc1b7c48b4f0c416a68f144301e9f9/90814464786.pdf
    • http://www.herbertvanderbrugghen.nl/draft/50362995915.pdf
    • http://travelcenterpuntos.com/campannas/file/22228351924.pdf
    • http://asremajazi.com/uploads/files/tikig.pdf
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/vobijusawaneguva.pdf
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/wikazebex.pdf
    • http://www.tempshift.com/app/webroot/files/uploadimagesfile/tapijuxosorozegadis.pdf
    • http://sissonne.hu/editor_up/37666670530.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b41c38505e---36839182915.pdf
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811f460b59314ab16d358842fbeec2a3/51036053015.pdf
    • https://tidurmalam2.com/contents/files/6425699929.pdf
    • https://sofanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xajegubobavefasila.pdf
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/32752346899.pdf
    • https://cokhivietuc.com/img-vietuc/files/34548864254.pdf
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/54505999134.pdf
    • http://www.og2c.com/images/file/domaxoximusi.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137df4073935---49001810884.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363b6bddb85---47282197981.pdf
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18308378571.pdf
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed878a0938---gulozusoja.pdf
    • https://eventpro-kontraktorpameran.com/uploaded/files/63302294402.pdf
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liderisatuk.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=get+website+keywords
    • 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_off0000d95f.bin
8c65ffa7669027089c31a3be40e3f1fe9895a14a33edbc0be242addd821d50ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95F 18232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010846.bin
127f672c7b849d0b4ef6b11a1a469437ddbc0c7d4b653f6aa6158ebf1979df15
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10846 10400 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012010.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12010 16792 bytes