Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3512997c39b2181…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 09:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c50dd1bb93117f3239369d8436c264fc SHA-1: 7582b6f5da9e560437271979d50bfc83f3d97d86 SHA-256: c3512997c39b2181fc65d268745b2e88942c01706afb631fddb1d3129b4ef3eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URLs indicate a potential for malicious content delivery or phishing. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/fafowufibusu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://happypalettebnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/rinupedudekifidabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb93f1584e52d08ac63e7a93b768011e/xerurixizega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://problemconsulting.com/img/download/files/logebelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81343251561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97obec2io1um7v8sn666g6qcj5/90552329787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdaurosa.com/Images_upload/files/58550147628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9371b4e58d1aabd184d2b4cc548439e4/lugomapusarigixadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0c848258---43957069924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haki.vn/uploads/files/72069348148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/619c81bfc238aafa8f0873751b06ba90/wogomovetejezolegub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6u2c3ji7tom2lb28eql68nk6b5/23342309940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bdf501ae39---5791729294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuanxuongmonmb.com/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/30743775239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/xipefetixexazavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098cb1e28ae2---30845205715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-lan.ru/uploads/assets/file/powojizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.autoservis-hubatka.cz/admin/upload/ww/file/xugapisofepaziwudonukuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/vumebavifazigebilizedisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/82074818394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eofp2tndhaft971k3v8sp8gnl9/17494272029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/fosemezisirolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a53899691---suduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pasted-radio.de/web/files/zetoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atomleasing.ru/media/File/84425406612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+bulk+up+raw+dog+foodPDF 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_off0000e687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE687 10588 bytes
SHA-256: dba498bb75bffb589efe807e15d123bbeece9a792055d90b424daae5bb5096a3
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE68 18244 bytes
SHA-256: ff0eb5c11d218b1dc56c5d924e29f5ff544db7f8ca88dc7d3e1c8733e3c592de
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1