Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ec7a87a2634527a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:06:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e5e2bb4bd92e3b4b8e26300d10959940 SHA-1: 70becc27928afe308924ded2c9d7d58f426a6cbc SHA-256: 3ec7a87a2634527a3b15ba1aea13a103134d2adecff4153a8b3199557fd92820
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://kutscher-customs.de/gfx/userfiles/files/98146197570.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021062223115866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallacewilliamsfamilyreunion.net/clients/6/66/662ca4338cd1fa41fa93b88222973dc6/File/11268563241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.antoniopopolizio.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42863716862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phuongdonggolf.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/9583441409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jpjplumbingandheating.com/FCKeditor/file/14764120928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34007014536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/18657714871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djapm.com/userfiles/file/suxikafamopanutamik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songod.vn/uploads/image/files/20750165947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0a6f14ed4---bunexedobetotide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarylaspalmas.orgdocumentos/file/jupax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrilaui.com/userfiles/file/33976778573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/454a0113c303847ab0430a8715c3f991/89364833850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160843a4544b66---59618966070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/ladagazipunebubitotidurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.duffylighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f9657f7dd6f4b380fcab57e089b1dba/lader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc81cb93d4---gupafeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/46101972158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke1uk1g0ptpgnasr1kf6fkrrvl/dorejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/vixuzovifakababasojodab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/nebegumapusokozomidiwuzuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/josojogutologedupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a46248c9e---getidebarise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=health+%26+safety+quiz+questions+answersPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3878dbd644bc8f9a3ff3855fd841422b/kokaludoluzani.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_off0000dfc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC9 9604 bytes
SHA-256: a68ee2df2a11f4bdb4e7a2b611b6410bbe91c7bfb5c3ba9c75fe3925722a965f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f497.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF497 16836 bytes
SHA-256: c800fd3a50645b7ef6ed34564fe218722d75e94c368255f601ef685f458352d9
font_02_sfnt_off00012033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12033 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1