Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fc1d50257d4f623…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 12:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 98976b4cd991fe156baf36a3732e3566 SHA-1: 307760ca76ca7a66c2f29474ae991042e76e57b8 SHA-256: 3fc1d50257d4f623fffd700c5122d50a01bb9512d8c22e75656369e5c4ff0e4c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards an attempt to trick users into visiting these sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=percy+jackson+and+the+olympians+epub PDF link annotation
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b80822ebd7a9d190b0de90e159f801b2/11975672088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9e65742ff---reruvotebebekali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yangpupark.com/uploadfile/files/wusekozekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/gepoxafema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i4u2hrt1vq47utpaan2llqov6v/muzixilorufukisosarigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071457ae8d63---296190344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/13816703180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nu8dicc516s47f3qnv87h832bg/bujetufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35db753920---fomifejituzaravusesujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/witufekigulakebafeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kfjhvab4rqtpou74dpm2vaqnl2/18647616723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oi5a7gbgf4cku7kq5vu0kob7c1/fumufizakebitegeraludibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ffa230a9ac40e7f630db6df887537f0/gilukibadazasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1f588d22e4---safasawumatopijitubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608154286083b---69299552823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0f9e876ebe2414a38e7a26a9de4a140/tituviwisak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91f2212f2c---zavutuzejuzabeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077b04d47d2f---25941287531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF07 5696 bytes
SHA-256: b85e355fe557797f07230acf620582934fe1a68fb584e38b9c01a38f525c80bc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF244 10900 bytes
SHA-256: c4657fa17b4ea7e98a27870749a7186bc584dca719019e32022f9a4a4fb5654f