Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3557948d3f4830c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-06 14:13:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7ca52e0e2db6b03bb0ea9bdba85c9fde SHA-1: 5654659756e04a55332dfdacd328f18cbd7a95e5 SHA-256: c3557948d3f4830c3ab8ddb789776c3dd757ec9fba40c42a2145cf60f5e3336c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further indicates malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57cf6bbbbf---91745333062.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2aa00cea64---16228340410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/44620691186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylekd.ru/files/34286043248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/mufajoxesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2f61d9a261---98729286410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leesfeest.nl/leesfeest/sites/default/files/file/75238574089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilalyapidekorasyon.com/userfiles/file/88160696888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com//files/76660060196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.schroedersales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696bc0422bc97b5522ed34775eb7e1c0/83295575681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/popizavofulodem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32es2b8r21o9fvuu29dsd76kr5/xetifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b3a71c412---tipevumitopusokopudote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/679adfa7a1546dd43a4ffb1dd7a2d257/2036569268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cec70c6f52---newekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/334d31e679b89d7b73f13e4498ff4c7e/8498836504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armandofalconi.net/userfiles/file/85545427980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/vokisuzezekibugimasozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/72979608809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/95461181959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eec922c67d---tufasobugilojugifepexegon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89d506c5a1f0a40ffc9ee9760e76cef/90599951890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/73301749091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/nosozelibatiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=swollen+and+watery+eyePDF 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_off0000f487.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF487 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010c9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C9E 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 6d963e8865868459b0343557093ac6eb248a46cbe789677680ada2aa130220b7
font_02_sfnt_off000123e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123E7 16716 bytes
SHA-256: 5f4b33a6524cff75e23fb2d8d2d943ca85d316191b20464e0602f34a4456e91a