Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c3c61b69507c937…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 20:18:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 63f12819a4c8ca8fc37b4535343cd5fc SHA-1: 8de80c27a8286a5904fcdf87557826f02b2c3008 SHA-256: 9c3c61b69507c9378ecd4dc5c5be4e82901dd5b4ce370445b2a6f17c15c2e330
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt at SEO manipulation or potentially directing users to phishing or scam content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kitchen+tools+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/79016619338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diaochue.vn/userfiles/file/biruwuxekosakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrmobilewebsite.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/054c83b70dfbd57c8022ec53846b44fa/11592817157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de63cb9e1a---52093225213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/913bf67f7f04ebe673e7846719900f4f/jilonapag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluefield1966.com/clients/26642/File/dovotofagojadapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06dc1b055d3a84d5e2835877ee3cebdf/rajudigameparuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06b32bce37---87911141563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/50322241686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d374ea675938936b93b9e5ce0febb91c/zozipewavopetigala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/82933825634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/72548970293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da941da5600---96044561735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b02b7a82dc9---dowosasen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609978571c875---mijolinidukivilezofikugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4bd4d20d7d---45626120123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfeef9aa498---65501189356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a810a4e4fce---nenepirelexoporaxonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099acd1ba1c6---97581425504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093b4ec9978f---19671833876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intergeored.com/upload/File/47735282000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a67551e994d---nuwunebuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091967eb5e45---57981862572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733c34bea64---84334285396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/ramamafupunevoveko.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_off0000f043.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF043 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10855 17608 bytes
SHA-256: afc2ff73c85eb272657fbf25ee3ba11c0854f9fcae81d5028e16ec209779d47e
font_02_sfnt_off000135e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135E5 10496 bytes
SHA-256: a2e038cca52d487b02861b2788b0848bc0504a105f9e86944493b35835ea0c73