Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e9786772587e542…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:49:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: cc8df5056d2f6842595bd0e24d92dd8c SHA-1: 8a74cd616c3146a14afa4d3c54e02b5b10b9f8c6 SHA-256: 3e9786772587e542dd53702b821c7cc61796e435768adc1cb57afa284db0c674
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, including one pointing to a raw IP address and others hosted on compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or redirection strategy. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' suggest a tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.serge-valentin.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95832156576.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--2o2b17g32e8xisqq.com/userData/board/file/nelifaxigejemupovuvujegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.180.103/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88904460782.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://tapestry.cz/images/file/files/wodajukurupitisozubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rs-entp.com/upload/file/27126646992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--espaoldetalca-lkb.cl/var/www/html/upload/file/nikojalasobekalopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degardo.hollandpazsit.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17908624477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taihegas.com/filespath/files/20210909055003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbontuning.ru/file/vixolenovetipowome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389f88affe1---91843853842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cc404d6d1---32758038995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec43a1d32c---xasatufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/xulazowoledubeten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rsvpcatering-ar.com/files/imagesfile/28130055717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/2952718990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamdq.com/filespath/files/20210906112236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skopjemuzikon.pmgrecordings.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekezufisenudokiwuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/loruliribirepavozuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjbfjt.com/upload/files/nawuwavodadokibiwuwuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/84831200505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yugreat.com/filespath/files/20210905020652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/61583990945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jandenzobv.com/image_uploads/file/1722199225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c3ba9889b---42684881242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=theme+maker+for+androidPDF 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_off0000d381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD381 10364 bytes
SHA-256: d7236a357014b57953e73ecc6cb9435f52e0dcc2cfbcc63a2a89e2aa6a3ced19
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA5 17076 bytes
SHA-256: cb75d0d885f3ff6d880aa827158711eaed347c97e17c25c39b738be2bc5aa29c
font_02_sfnt_off000116ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1