Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e1c8feced3d3718…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 02:02:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 65cc3e746cfbe197b7d59ef87e0dc8fc SHA-1: 4a70de13d6c376d008c8192db356392bb40ea9d1 SHA-256: 3e1c8feced3d371827866ca281eb53c9f159c2bdfff5d13b6a494fe3e41247d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users to malicious sites. The PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics confirm this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9528

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://booking-news.hkdnracing.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/46002645174.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eb1148e0d1---1102868495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kht.civilkozpont.hu/uploads/file/56561807193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanilkwanla.com/uploads/files/19303344749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sd2qtr8obgkn04128s2o09nu0j/febixitebegos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/6858513407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tichdiem.surecare.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/67831494968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/nisabadozusorik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/565cea1a499df24a05eecc927b24beaf/lafokovutejebizedazojuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicon-msk.ru/data/files/filejemeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kroonzuivel.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vibekudapanetedukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrehabourhome.com/userfiles/files/8347937017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/58705366868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/4332902599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5e98506b6196d2f1c24131a1f278feb/23360905812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99747acdc56f496a69377e3d71d399ce/boxupevesojumaduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/41578237426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/72231954373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sv0jeugmctkhjmnl56dc55nouv/12758502460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fopezapanuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fb5184b97---3352657991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony.im/userfiles/file/55573001313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/nidopubogudegul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.flamanville-76.fr/upload/file/nobikisetubexukibenewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/nolisitibokoguvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/78160003977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cuphead+three+playersPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C2 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 5059c5ccd2458369911be66d31c22dbf4c0fb5f670386d2c12a01a7ca9164cda
font_01_sfnt_off0000f894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF894 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off0001008c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1008C 23148 bytes
SHA-256: c339212238fb68abfc4ffc31e95b72a17ef261334866c26d20a4dd0fdf927132
font_03_sfnt_off00013c0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C0E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_04_sfnt_off0001541f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1541F 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 0e5b64efebcdcc6cabd92d24fc15a26c48c61da916bb7db7d9113a1ca31f2b40