Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cfe2fdc84d0b622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-31 22:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 1c29cb882380acf18735126775826946 SHA-1: 00c1a12a7ef8b24b0c55bb8052edccd9461d3f6d SHA-256: 3cfe2fdc84d0b622cc5441eb5d5855d8b499ad391e51b9a5c89fba31d719a233
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hopbkacpcp3qeh1c7u9f2kpd26/87974619239.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-15/20210515175101774064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjcfurnituremaker.com/userfiles/files/72722505505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7058b59ebf0ff768373fb7174fe7c6c6/vives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/igqugh5r97bs1gb7991olijth2/99313050023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d0d0bb03fa7527112e917f2e259580e/xageferekuwifovigepojisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/23781890948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba587f2248836930b23e2854e6c34319/lejulikusakuzawifosup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keletunderground.hu/images/uploaded_pics/file/87300229104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021630427551854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/36841398218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/36170914103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/83532821384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41cb4ec1ed---perewejemoruru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etyekilovarda.hu/userfiles/file/vofes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607382fbacf46---fuwibogapivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48kfna0f0ph63kunsuaqvr15da/mewitugelixadifuwobodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd58ef4f152---47616143740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://microsolder.hu/userfiles/files/bekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourlightingbrand.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b81f254bb9c83b2c3416d1604beadca9/tizukatonikuguvurure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woods-china.cn/ci2/userfiles/files/20210809223513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/vilobasoxomizatijidanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/fufesarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newmob.it/userfiles/files/25610166937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9bb5f933a0---41906873380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+be+antiracist+book+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000f343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF343 17920 bytes
SHA-256: 1d050d649f5b20a910da3fb09cac44ace04db657261fe827e467944e27610a25
font_01_sfnt_off000120fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13911 10876 bytes
SHA-256: b50a84122730236a834a6b3ef260572dbe34391744c05164a14c00b434c630e5