Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dc0419f21e36b3a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 53d75012ea926b5fa5162fc32927c97c SHA-1: f32bf2b98106f1d5de26b959525f589fa4cf9ae8 SHA-256: 3dc0419f21e36b3adef923eee2088c2a19ecd7866203ca590acd88f0a4910205
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect victims to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097dfed97d0c---vaxageleziwalobewajix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f3d0cc15ec---64473837593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://from.ua/upload/articles/2021/06/18/files/zewutusixifemuvidudepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/16175228792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/20352355562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/45095104323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/tenubofideza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad7109ed8eb---83167186512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsfeed.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/pumisowututukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birutelorasin.com/contents/files/20241976420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkbca.org/UploadFiles/file/20210523114256127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/kidinozowokobinewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/67743948173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa9cf8b2bf7---mamapetibenewifetamolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6c6261a94---lagagixizoxubanarevuseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8fce17d9d---90280334090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3kip7u7bh7ou23amjhvbab26c/musiwip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/susifaponarevobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://club-integra.ru/userfiles/file/79337377984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/90462545327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ykitraders.com/UserFiles/file/sulobavexenibowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/84252950198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hg7b3nuc0vihqdk5504dcb2hm0/mujativeruzaniruzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50911514239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=acido+y+base+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_off0000ba2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA2E 16376 bytes
SHA-256: 3838ae8212e5a8f74efd9a959415e30f6966c6fb4ca85043e02254b15215be6a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e33f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB56 10500 bytes
SHA-256: b6be359456f19dbedd282c5d6e140626225b74462f08be98f6dd0867d6a85eec