Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dcc086acf3aad04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 01:49:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 13447fe53060f6d0680734743fd13782 SHA-1: bbcde82ce67d997af3ba340cb32fa0977039f45d SHA-256: 3dcc086acf3aad045f24abc310b02f4e42b8544651f0839366ed7bc1759fb9b9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df7ad0c0641de7165a531ac860a0ea41/28873337448.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b11664cfb2ce0269ba9e9067a76eb7f/28741498115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/54113061587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/doretepamokofid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/78614788833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd6cb2fce8---zuxutozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkquiz.com/userfiles/file/38848263572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/xunimenafufolepofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/kapemunaribakodisagewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608785045a31c---bitaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udaybharat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68160545180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607072f250ee2---68622887543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608df8da62e28---64519633218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoshiftbid.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/10331502493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/66471131031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754fa3af752---34435051625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8gtp7vh1k6nrfi7543epv2glt/koredoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/64324352972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051114304773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f75031e582---ginogubojuzome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valifyrepapillon.com/clients/6/68/68e1c6a84db99a04c21676ff826d6e37/File/tabosaxopisilaxoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felix-schulze.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s77r5s5jtpbignmq0ofav5q9ab/50015960787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciarajewellery.com/editor_upload/file/10566122388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d377e168ff5a9d595e80fd65a8f38f2/jopozirelisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=selina+concise+mathematics+class+7+icse+solutionsPDF 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_off0000e109.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE109 10620 bytes
SHA-256: f6ff43e0ee126f52971d21a6501a3c0372900c00cca0d7f0d9df65b7afa08956
font_01_sfnt_off0000f92a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF92A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001113c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113C 17704 bytes
SHA-256: 45b5a47bf5a1ab1626b79ead3cfb184a350ceae3216407477ca60f0e6bc712f9