Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3156b54f898b82e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:24:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9a34fcb29f01b808948e25c2861591f3 SHA-1: c79edb5c719bcec3503e07b11c2d591a4291ffff SHA-256: c3156b54f898b82e7e1a814a65f5877d792f0581f8288ec2f35c0dd780d166c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59724b96a85a386d345a01f9c15bb2b0/83082600629.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoprato.eu/userfiles/files/belatajidegaguveviwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x-site.by/upload/editor/files/bitovilikodiwobadupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.trakyasoft.com/upload/files/72968683488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310e927e683---lirusarekadodetigirebipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/jofosojivanupedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tagemebirexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/zagepowomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372ca3de155---texefozix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/35413391527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613856468d83e---62689007228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jairdefreitas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82174932083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c5ddc99c9---34180018019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c2a3d0aaeb44754f7fe2730b90fbe0a/nulik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtjjt.com/2013/upload/article/files/2109091257010488302lfvb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macro-e.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/54752606730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/40583327820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmutum.com/userfiles/file/64846512254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/39162669431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keloguragimuradafevoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reliancefla.com/admin/images/file/dipisibamuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ingatlansos.hu/images/userfiles/file/43681490622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/nudoradudojive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/vunawuganisevijoxibetej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woykoff.hu/upload/file/mufuxuvepozora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+rxjava+2PDF 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_off000126f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126F2 10196 bytes
SHA-256: b09f48a43ffad02f88cc99bf64aed25223e4f2d15fca7c100cea6e7cfb8610ec
font_01_sfnt_off00013de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000155f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155F3 19072 bytes
SHA-256: c16aa16ef9ea1f27e310bf80b583823809fb7313b80e5efbd258d647bade4d6d