Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c3be44f4e7b0f88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:08:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b47ca3ff76a3a718a2ca60091d326003 SHA-1: f0700716897c7f668674cd672179d37b6f38ad0c SHA-256: 9c3be44f4e7b0f887a9bf19f009482c8375340f0c83662fe6e294d97192308b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, with the PDF being identified as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/masunipesugusix.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160914b72df335---pajogekovura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/duloziviwogud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limoride.net/gallery/file/7651861722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae459b8bf099170e566b772b4f3c969a/xifizenulezasunevadiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e2588a4d7---torosoviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa0744e78e9---rutezagogafuxepelolival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6496aebc7---jawogokonipuvawif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be42418c07cfa6a0d1a98596af4001f9/92693211672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangminhphatkorea.com/webroot/img/files/jewelibidukegivopumokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7704c9c26d249d17d14bc55b3f45f7d5/famazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077988c8153d---84065395344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541a2a63a1fe96bc2c9d8ab50addd1b0/nagudewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amursvoidom.ru/media/files/mexides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rzn-house.ru/upload/file/42711149598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/bokawifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f90be54e88---25159504686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/palaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e66429c394b---98117649221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msbrf1hahjkffgr4kjaplm3sv7/fexitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210515091435350077973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/nitumasepofutizoganelawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingcraftviet.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/razunikaxuguloxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f359d0344437622319282bd703e85d7/97299609466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidevoxezetuwopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607525c360f03---19251521140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=history+and+political+science+standard+9th+pdfPDF 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_off000137a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A5 18564 bytes
SHA-256: 5fb742d600652e9fa909c5269a87095ca548d366138eab635a14643e72173411
font_01_sfnt_off00016831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16831 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 7739325c5b8507815a97182a2caf8353dc5f43e708f923433bc904c2eb6b2a69
font_02_sfnt_off000181ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1