Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3db0e91ab33d0e33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 00:36:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a736124c83bb30fcc7b931dae4aaaaf7 SHA-1: bd4a390767c7fe1c19e4f7b37c61bbbfa262a901 SHA-256: 3db0e91ab33d0e330628d7b89308becadecf73ca5c6c04536da3d953d69f5751
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to phish or deliver a secondary payload through these redirects. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://adamshs-pdx.com/clients/d/d3/d3c120c733f7363e2cdaef2cff5f3687/File/52387305878.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/gukugodovuluver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/87550628708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renhedc.com/uploads//files/202108031430452975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69379666001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/84123236039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23705767184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b59a7ab02232dcb13d015ed5994d5a0/56488729765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/88643499051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingdynamics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20af86d2b6eb3e5149e85525e814c3c/dubivigexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a4b4d21c39---13485527630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/1642200771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942c8179324---27191669374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huefpdf.org/upload/file/18724292179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd1898ac4cfdcd39fedee1abad7f119/91050574777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1e9b7dc3a1881b357d5aab80570bdc7/nonamuporenebomugofukox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=madilyn+when+i+was+your+manPDF 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_off0000c298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC298 10708 bytes
SHA-256: b2874e9e97b5d9aff80fb18767b0d200bc8a068bb3fc88d395c70b550b2d0b0e
font_01_sfnt_off0000daf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF6 17056 bytes
SHA-256: e540ddba8c31f51610d11de878e3ac84aaa9159376225594fe0056cca0e8006f
font_02_sfnt_off00010731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10731 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1