Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cf276a96248e4a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:18:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c0b3b3b353bd31db20b52a20e30cbb13 SHA-1: 48dd3abde4f5eb0aa87277ef5c0d928d21c2581f SHA-256: 3cf276a96248e4a9edabbde7e6167df12f4a6e256b4179fb167b599dee7d95a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to redirect users, and ClamAV detection confirms it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, suggesting it's part of a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad81e602355---pefofiboduvosores.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/32263138296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/54399885349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/gifakopepener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076057995730---zuvaxogedozuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0f6b290be---tegajowinolidafatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volnynaklad.cz/data/file/91666335408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gyn-koe70.de/obrazky/file/91433272759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flvirginia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d273e3c71a18e2eac6c18d7fe83a5ae3/fodogasumevebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kumegemupotoxane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhcreunion.com/clients/4/43/43f38dc94a4d709fe78decf5bd9d7370/File/fumavenumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc74317462---gafivusurawoguwuruvawiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vewasujuziluxokaguzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099e59f743c3---41842592254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/95230188489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.westcountrystoves.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2243ef17822ee77d91dccc910e7baa83/11055904232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93663869390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilc.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idfv7us58gotpglfgrb460tem5/62494238566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.boldino-hotel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wesokenikonasuzopanixeruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9602ef527---96914028098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210609175320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-engine.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisitutabupafef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masseydogs.com/clients/f/fc/fc2e217ffa4851e49ca3cd921a15cf41/File/wubuxarireb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/rutaliwodejugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macphersonproperties.com/clients/876251/File/12763898755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=marathon+training+plan+sub+3+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_off0000eacc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEACC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000102de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DE 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 284454feb635318714c038b478540299fc613ac3009fffe5d43962724cd75929
font_02_sfnt_off00012e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E6E 11048 bytes
SHA-256: be6043d8589e733465005e85ebb5656907a4a70de523e3041d291bd032981646