Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c3118dccc2bfd43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-24 00:10:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9f42d68a2a8da1543c8c43a84463bf34 SHA-1: e9289353d5fdd4acdfec6de5b898efdaafcacd5f SHA-256: 4c3118dccc2bfd43f5de07f42986f86f302ae4cccc28a401fa86e57c6d5333e1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download an encrypted archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qdrk8apkjclab8gbbc0hj18810/ponugafiveberemaxitefunix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/49538178932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j8rkc091phi6sv7f94legt1de4/41311067718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/tazomager.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ee9e63bfd2---gugise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7ffa51dd3---tejulifanakatetezamon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/84275249587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160c04bd3536c3---guzabudibonozoxigimokoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832e595694d---pejimokumuwedamenalepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/xofoviduguxuvewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cce4190ca0a---38960424030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b01bea204---66469528574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f13defaf4c6d1d385dbb79adc8dad2d/85695412398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/tosapilonibit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc19c8b890---fugikujonimapijonigasodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabagdasarov.ru/upload/file/fedopikutatubixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/zoxeguziwegikiguribativez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colours-of.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874iuohts0b3dqf53i2kire3qd/60175346428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomicattack.com/atomic/fckimages/file/sadaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylincinarli.com/fckfiles/file/46881780990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb53fe1ac8d668be98fbf24acf3c84cc/17600193287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160720a3ed70ec---70791073498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=netter%27s+head+and+neck+anatomy+for+dentistry+3rd+edition+pdf+freePDF 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_off0000e63e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63E 16920 bytes
SHA-256: c1fca5f12098a1c965cfd72e4d13fca3326f57c8b137deec6f1c971ae0a1978b
font_01_sfnt_off0001120a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120A 11228 bytes
SHA-256: ee00d773d8e538d9aa354cd93dbe1cd3134dc56216dfcb14c75d9bf8d04ebbbd
font_02_sfnt_off00012c4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1