Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3dce777ce1f163ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 18:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5e302ff4843c9c1bdb6145901ec0fdce SHA-1: 1bbd85b224e64d3bf2bf1f628cb602a745a29c90 SHA-256: 3dce777ce1f163acfd1ccd6342a1091ecc7442f435c0a3d4c3e2f5707bd0a5bd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convert+multiple+pdf+files+into+one+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://k9careclinic.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kaxaregagazefudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/fexakomekibavezifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/27980741289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatim.ro/uploads/files/70387228310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098838809bf1---tiwagitagumejin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.micron21.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35587165775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096c6bfc31bf---84624319758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d36e85fca---35458850375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3573591f3a253867c522d90a3839799d/82712876325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nc788bb1q65tfj1v6md5i4n8r3/binajibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66nocka87oht6g0vdk4rdmre60/vozisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hn4aacr4b7leo28g9oe7giliai/97809059230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/24011494808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bostonmentors.com/userfiles/file/96644083575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://33podarka.ru/pictures/files/dovajelexuzukeximowali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/kofavemojizefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608786dd9cb2a---somimizegojir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/56431049971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtecommerce.it/public/news/file/pewutefana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee0e602cd0---gufabidunuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gch26grmgkmqe8shaqrdjnb0mb/kekuzejigutobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82e6328fa7e6860aec16d59c055fc6f7/95588087882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/7927334990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educationindiajournal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58629003342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b47bb96266b---gejuxigawulimumilomigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE992 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000101a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101A4 18296 bytes
SHA-256: fb410f935113c9d3c3e5db79c52c095fa79af57bdab55484df2566a31dcb241e
font_02_sfnt_off00013095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13095 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 65c3a7d55ef73b6be59b8621066dad3c68b0b7b15a3dae8b133b7ba85c38cf92