Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3c175eb4d04cc9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-07-20 02:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8878980b4ac975a9fc918eee7c2b8ea3 SHA-1: 5abd30fb6140f9cdcaa10c76c423709bcdf1f1a5 SHA-256: a3c175eb4d04cc9a49867d39a3cc792fcac8e0818a9b06113737679c2caa4256
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a distribution mechanism for further malicious payloads, potentially exploiting vulnerabilities in the user's PDF reader.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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 http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/lewazu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b363308f8---75800007269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985eff12f0d9f257f436f1ae0259bfe8/59139190527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d5c2a987b6b324f1afb4d5b5d678d1d/nemewefazavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47b90d3f71fac27ec5ed6223fdcc6c3c/sogawesarabepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/27886631700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cvsc.co/userfiles/file/43012110106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734fd1fcd54a4ac0724f69d97f41238a/46406684964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792c71efa29---64168091129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/54950407073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffb2dd117ecd6bb566f2ff39fe93cb68/zazasirigikawowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bkdvenl9kq6e0ejaro1jfdl5n1/burinufunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6070594090e28d2da593604c90b6c470/gijowepekoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flemisterbauldingfamily.com/clients/8/82/82a21d9598fc66f9117a8fb7222c8fd0/File/4739435049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/95284928938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dddbe68191e---27280222472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxidugegoluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/fuvezukeraner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6132fe9f01---kemadidibaboredutiwaxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/756605b0dadb8e4fcf1f1d9f2a668c69/37630832413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://englandmatchshirts.com/assets/file/39030717692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/jokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160996e83c4102---tojunopen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/duvikajezananonudutuwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/43174044738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/94295802391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=acknowledgement+of+any+projectPDF 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_off0000ed20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10532 17476 bytes
SHA-256: 8d701d9a3d34f9ac29c0dd2eb2145b01d6c24a0bbba16014768eefa2c413a76d
font_02_sfnt_off0001331a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1331A 11108 bytes
SHA-256: 10698cf0d85cd3d6a226b58ea5fd56b976745aa41c179e6219fe68953ce726b5