Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3c1ebc3905591ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:45:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8d3fbaf3189fadbc67084a6958e17560 SHA-1: 4df35272ad06bce46fa00e57652fa742a99c2a0a SHA-256: b3c1ebc3905591edca00556c7677c651162b0afefde20325626fdde9366732db
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files. Several heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body, though truncated, contains metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the link farm hypothesis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scan+qr+code+in+image+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/kuvajekesigemakidijizar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/wuroginejetakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wccflooring.com/userfiles/files/nozekimojokexamara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telechips.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13807909173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cinebuzz.be/uploads/userfiles/files/69066277660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/860b70f068650052a651c1d9b3e81210/3563730923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/konozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yacpa.org/yacpafiles/file/80802053284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcvperu.org/data/fcvperu/userfiles/file/kuvanavowir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0992af6bde6eb29b176555859eebd32/dadezuvazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ed17ed0eafb3767a39168c26514b6a0/93149486426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbnjl.com/userfiles/files/63958678954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6d8ff57ca3d77d21be30f7172268b79/40055381487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/62185840042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krukewittfarms.com/userfiles/file/mowujozuviboxafepipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alharithiforcameras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98774985178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uat-tunisia.com/userfiles/file/60921498329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.moxiclear.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12417364211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://almawred-sy.com/files/adminfiles/files/90140251232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deep2001.com/images/library/File/rataresud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65367191654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66067774162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tjr5vtmt5grqjsbmi48fj0no28/85387319540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.net/upload/75257197491.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_off0000d098.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD098 18224 bytes
SHA-256: 8d86a8b37f8aad2d08df714f531ca1012ca35a18ae169832ac84694fe0b8fe1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFB2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117C9 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 689808de6338a4eecd4e70eb220178783ae6864738f3bc585d500c7a0d0dc678