Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3de7c3363398c76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-07-02 00:19:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8cc0f317c1bde5c183fd5c35d9628f8d SHA-1: 17518bd7e34dcc682f6973dd4e16a35785a12428 SHA-256: a3de7c3363398c7629bb3914fd5f22737e902b77bdce852766bc1c62eb3ecbce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and embedded links point to a common tactic of using documents to drive traffic to attacker-controlled infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+dog+to+draw
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702a902c5f4---36413062887.pdf
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a56bb42566---bugamorup.pdf
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9037152af4f81c044d0b96b9072109c9/jitilopusatoxamixukifid.pdf
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/gigunawipix.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c7b300a3900ae857604115fd2a6f20b/resomugiteludetoton.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b293fa41147---fiwakududomofib.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc57eae9396c64014a719dbb0d940ed/siwumebererifafoxa.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c86aab1d368---melugegamiri.pdf
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oafpn8md0cci7omp72l7tquf01/96929677616.pdf
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a2d6754f62---pufuniji.pdf
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14dd8c1a5ac8476b1337bf590d66a38e/budawutijigamokixosiw.pdf
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/zezexozuwir.pdf
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098361a94621---67239627331.pdf
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8c01557a90944e4798b2859038ece0c/rubatexik.pdf
    • http://whs1963.com/clients/7/75/758a827d59fb1c2827eec60421ffdc22/File/joragetowuketesebu.pdf
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/joxotu.pdf
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78007002020.pdf
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae1fb43742dd33e9bfd0d2f07c68314b/tolijezojubejeve.pdf
    • https://deltaguvenlik.net/userfiles/file/36688336751.pdf
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/20191666543.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0b9025e81c---6031378369.pdf
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/wegowavusavumomix.pdf
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/68296435137.pdf
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b818743e848cfc505387b604bdd1c57/matapivalibominov.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f165.bin
a59eb0a38e1ba038fd4eea3617bf258c98b4931388816f092e4b9025b2227ed1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF165 10232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010865.bin
2bf2e84131f0ba43f8b55be737c9b20d810ad587a34027f10f1417f0c06620c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10865 17156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013549.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13549 16792 bytes