Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ce24e02deb9b767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 18:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: fe366cad862addefdf158f708ca0c49b SHA-1: 46f5de8e8b671bb50b03f2ad846b386bca226c96 SHA-256: 3ce24e02deb9b76761996e193370160543ed2463618ebbf051501e82475c00d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://xiangzhuan.tw/upload/files/99448890685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmbcciqv3t8vrb4l8talofdn9c/44546779357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/29741409969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080b57de5f2b---lovulukafawoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/12987403039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/piwuxonopusisofemefadoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/23763456980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0043eba7bb---22400404891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090eac60695f---74218997629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db6be5fe813c01b9deb43b828b0bc5f4/553513532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970855851b3eb015acad369a13f64a05/fudidojukofor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091947947743---25764555876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/motejuwega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68594785982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3slk1gcovl5cjo75t0n8t3760r/10733874414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/54040638183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9hlqs4egos37f92jt2ga91o2p9/lewabupoborozodivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8215cc939f44786ecdfd325e169f3c1/luserajatematul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedoro.ru/upload/file/puzivudomugavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d6723b6ef---86969764858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/15788614461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46a05101b80797dd927f9cef235c13e2/34186257015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferrogep99.hu/static/media/file/69581684122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/82194482617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=ron+weasley+and+hermione+grangerPDF 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_off0000f2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010abc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ABC 10840 bytes
SHA-256: d323d65573f8e3ab6c3d4eded55519b5d7534b4ed69aaa26d5ce57fcac87689b
font_02_sfnt_off0001235e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1235E 17196 bytes
SHA-256: a9604d1fa4009bfb64f6fc42bc61776538b4e2f195f6e79b0677b2b22c454de4