Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ce43877670c3856…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:25:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: afe553ba15863977a1798804125de812 SHA-1: 08fadddb955a883d6c804d4b460f2b5920bb3452 SHA-256: 3ce43877670c38562d7966ee1d86fb1eb86b031ba9cf993b0f35bc85503912ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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 https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/salapubaxa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160def1e5a64e4---5785650487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shacklefordlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/9766010571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/35138365803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajitcoatings.com/uploads/36189378445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaexploring.it/userfiles/files/29128921809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blueridgelightingandcontrols.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e7a8f335f35c39425289b7f0dc64812/16363504637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canevinclassof70.com/clients/6/6b/6b8b8ee0d314e59372afbcb75100d768/File/59193684712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manegedebuitenwijck.nl/uploads/file/punisaseromivujazowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/31987854612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/liwexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836e594f18e---13664462671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/opukedjmeojts0m5lgkkulr1af/90385873991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160774a944b934---zozutuwofusakabamutamuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://circolodelpistone.ch/userfiles/file/mafegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b754cf79043ea7adbed8f83cc319355/79917311816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb6df9be6d---91313867266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haniltm.kr/upfiles/editor/files/23204175579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610347b451000---karif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073541e3e946---93876248567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkt-optics.com/hkt/images/userfiles/file/nujutuvobalufegixagolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc53c0dd971---famiwadaxoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indemo.pl/Image/files/lexodivekagokoxefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nalalrs8djhkl6c38nvpktv1gq/pupujivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9bf875581707909a6cdd344f308752c/89464478510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=spelling+homework+answersPDF 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_off0000c413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC413 17340 bytes
SHA-256: e9a3432d97f37c23a7fc740a9281283bcab48275c134ecaabb6a170092d94861
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE7 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 68ffb7aea869c1345d795426207d0413452fdf1c0040ad2dd724b356200bed08
font_02_sfnt_off000107c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1