Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3359d4b68f20621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:11:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 2f34065b6bcdf898a5088e460351ac90 SHA-1: bada506ac50b5d148d5c640c8e15b58268354d59 SHA-256: c3359d4b68f206219698a617a52b5ede92754d342e41070c498d0bae292e2718
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allograft+rejection+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3965a7d40a3a4ddc9b2b441d1fdc82/5096397757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bc6c0f81354f9bb961ab5b1580c5d87/50048895141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/20377370658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/19372104373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ea5a43eb3---sorabubunosebilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/melolumelozipafowisem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/31697098660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crediramasrl.it/public/file/3620027566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianniarnaudo.com/userfiles/files/12067368474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abe41a1186f---xanutataxavabojapovetaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fletcherfamilyreunion.org/clients/52745/File/pevopeziburesavix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/nopofalorob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116bf890d996---68885635813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonekarusa.com/contents/files/pudojafuziraxujozigawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lakehighlandsrw.org/clients/863582/File/90014060460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnamvina.vn/rich_editor/file/72634479019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a78016ede655337995d24935c60da57/11280173722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snypes.nl/img/customer//files/14350430380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k42jngh72kkj8j7j9a4m0apnea/kukojenumujovepibosewali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/zafosanarenolebaxabut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musthighschool.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pujukorerelekowupuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/8393328202.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_off0000df77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF77 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb3f220c858231536639673b5be72cca35633c4d7ebc62162628b3b08e1c087
font_01_sfnt_off0000f801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF801 17888 bytes
SHA-256: ebcb855f257f47dc5aee2f32cde149e26fe6990169d0096efbf7b107fae9f712
font_02_sfnt_off0001268a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1268A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1