Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ce6f910419c39e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2021-07-04 11:01:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 09812292f704421436108556614e7e21 SHA-1: fd821a0cf5e31d33b518dd01cad8e37aec220276 SHA-256: 3ce6f910419c39e7da15ab276c1e1ee3f16f7435c398ce0cac97461c23645815
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final destination. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9768

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://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/kogubi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da8115993f9---laxusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/kilijofezuruvojipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wavagijatiboligoburuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/55257812289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/37725569178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/ruvivefonedododumon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a288d162fd9---sijumokuzuxaredufojefaxin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f40450793264c25220ad839dd3d57192/tafawolagugatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077fdcfc0618---52023755002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210528094320_104595702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59a06e683c---vizudidepinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03cd3aa7bee74d90d83884dc7cfddbdd/xenevutobavajurukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e74b0493a---xovuseresixodenugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a124715dddded4ae7da641fa0daa9b97/62841600392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7c16e19bcf---16925011409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.publicitymailing.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3fcd16bfe0---24728633964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609afeed7de65---50390206584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4276b52222---kufunadorolijarilatuliwag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/vonedaromovagakafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9d2f250f7---kixazituzavuxaseki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwardfmcgintypa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/18396445362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na31s6tjo7716gtjp5t0hl7ht0/waruzizikaremo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gptools.net/userfiles/file/dowanafovorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6jdb3jg1vj7c9ipt4q7cc3cnij/47702678528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f8135eac3---32026067859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=small+armor+standPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000faf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAF1 16352 bytes
SHA-256: ca6a160614e73b60c3b7bf1767d0c904540406eacb924930d7b0a4ced8364fa4
font_01_sfnt_off00011102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11102 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12919 10260 bytes
SHA-256: ef05e8fca2819a4e5d91aa1e05dd0f9c9319d2511e5f841c51bc33ccd5244848
font_03_sfnt_off00014019.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14019 18352 bytes
SHA-256: 4ba11924de48d407887bd4cc24b1f58b9d8d8b6a47396e6d0a0af64c76089940