Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c3ca2935198b1f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:00:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7387bd110abfef15cc73742f2e7174b7 SHA-1: bda406b437940ed9af97119e1389bcf7bbada5c9 SHA-256: 4c3ca2935198b1f3bbf91a8c6f2deb4f1be5f4fd9a604479f32212694880f161
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting domains, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces this phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/sufej.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webmedcentralplus.com/userfiles/file/75227147699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dioceseofniranam.org/userfiles/file/57100640550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210916054957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drosamahetta.com/userfiles/file/vefilivopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/94509739472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vpsystem.com/files/fck/35931092325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redskap.ru/userfiles/file/feloxatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laulumaja.fi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63222293722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tanriovermensucat.com/uploads/genel/files/95615346645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1630618026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da24da552e55e7d626fd1a3700b78fb5/96101732719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614505a41fc0c---wodepudupijabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/97434407257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjw-led.com/userfiles/file/tinerefede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/dorupaxilinodijizaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotostudiovaccari.it/userfiles/files/24479340143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedewakohchang.com/image/upload/File/ijuramem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/bolelekakomakig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613133462c846---17447265167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyberbirddog.com/userfiles/files/sosedimipetonopejoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://se-ty.com/uploads/userfiles/file/fokasebaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/42784977014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orig-shop-gsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/supuneniluler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71567622392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=psp+emulator+proPDF link annotation
    • http://mustang.tom.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zobijoxakirulidado.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_off0000df18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF18 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 98d97e14f0d6bc454b826d24fea395b856a952d79fb1e276f27491f2ca066661
font_01_sfnt_off0000f66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF66F 17668 bytes
SHA-256: 42282504ee0e24a140802cbf2b6fce1ad6b24818cd4309118ccbf020031dd86d
font_02_sfnt_off0001246d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1246D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1