Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3150020a376fc80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:12:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9f1f20c6123f6cc495dfb5da85ad392e SHA-1: b20afabeb64cefbae5f3d1a7d08a9ac594982f67 SHA-256: c3150020a376fc809f34b842a636c06bd7cfa860c9817203e11bdf023f651c2e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URIs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution lure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URI patterns indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nkeuutkprfidnjii8d3o15p2p/57777953507.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://graphicyazd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45029790035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/ravajogubaromiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16rkh4p9mamddcjqoh9sv2vs47/72459426551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136c6f21b35d---tatudujas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sshs61.com/clients/6/60/60e739d5a8cf4a6710e4f064fd99417d/File/zerigijite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/webozodaxipuxenekeveso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/22735070160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/wexatezinuvukoxugegugape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patc.fr/imagesfile/kazofonepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab550cbfc60---1608598080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/6725528180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086cb4e60e8e---wanupatedegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-021.com/userfiles/file/20210705150545_wrh82i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://157.230.241.115/image/upload/File/zuxemiv.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/xoferifufidatonigoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af8fe4c5d6b---65849940548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/9714558868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021061917460581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611bc56133eca---27165813339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/80148101348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samtee.com/admin/images/file/976535141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130a4354ab94---pilixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/vavalesoxugibuviwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907d7d40479---popokepevedijafinefabinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=helb+enquiry+form+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_off00010a80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A80 18912 bytes
SHA-256: fe60a189c2ebd41925f6b711de402617e3cad05cd2d40eed78890f21eec1a908
font_01_sfnt_off00013bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BAC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000153c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153C3 10720 bytes
SHA-256: ea4d334769f679486a281f819980d3aa2ec6396d4905ee7f96ae3a6a927fa5e0