Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cdf193d16a9b3f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 78119da2e5aaf4ea97972b71cccf32f3 SHA-1: b4b841ff4582b5e76d302503b282e2918f2062aa SHA-256: 3cdf193d16a9b3f73371ed52075f67a45ba5028946dce88927a3a9084e5d8a3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to malicious content or phishing pages. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.rkcomdesignservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb97f2127c---6639813796.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ed30d1a6418---78196601071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubujojosomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37248a5a482c870cb0367a79fb21d012/12310890772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xetefefududut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/116fa5c503fbf0a71141e30ebd0d0dc0/99124610602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab475e1747---xorifuxim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/18690981116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/31863105807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://synodradomski.pl/userfiles/file/buderaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b23d529693ed29f7e6181eb23fd0916/7408663220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/81210618652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845cd233589---lunumirinodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b97e2607867da93506ed36dbc8175d89/fepanivotobal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7ec5ca7b8af41bfdae2969dfaa50a4a/29618708012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/surunosanirubopadomumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/nidal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandpointfl.com/userimages/mumowoginaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add130eafa9b61d4084d07bf766f058a/dozazamabosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1b05570123---wegawido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/10208476560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cae6253b4368a0d46cac53c5a7d977a/11826548439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepinieramontana.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lidipejolujopibupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f794bacd5e---gevixabuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/22638829743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=dibrugarh+university+msc+mathematics+syllabus+pdfPDF 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_off0000f076.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF076 11368 bytes
SHA-256: ba30a9d1efae96baddc1a39d76ea3739acc22766d23196dbcd16e16f0b7ee366
font_01_sfnt_off00010aae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AAE 17424 bytes
SHA-256: 414a9d24c51c9918efca0fd90a0f864d70ff6276f565129043e289b541c21c2a
font_02_sfnt_off000137c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1