Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3702a1bb9d09e35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 04:30:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 91c685848647d0c4c66b3e4cf130d53d SHA-1: f01d299af2a9b99d5e1357b4bcdada7995aa900f SHA-256: c3702a1bb9d09e35327aadc87a73c46d56e0bb335c9b9468688982f0deb97158
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is structured as a link farm on disposable hosting, likely to obscure the ultimate destination of the malicious redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=scary+video+call+games
    • http://nkmate.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_6739EEDF7A437468.pdf
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/59126108239.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137265bd995d---mezofavukajaso.pdf
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/49425632707.pdf
    • https://keyword-lda.pt/site/upload/file/wipeguxaxiranem.pdf
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/4309886942.pdf
    • http://airzo.net/userData/board/file/94032660084.pdf
    • http://carneslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gogegozugezolese.pdf
    • https://agronlogistics.com/userfiles/files/sivosanojifevimukife.pdf
    • http://pokemom2.com/uploads/files/senewosujave.pdf
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimobagadanedu.pdf
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614002faf2f55---32964851256.pdf
    • http://pp-aqua.com/userfiles/files/68972786172.pdf
    • http://kpdb.org/userfiles/files/25848305522.pdf
    • http://azs-szermierka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/52969474205.pdf
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0102472001631753398.pdf
    • http://isisthailand.org/file_media/file_image/file/durevu.pdf
    • https://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/sudugevulasarigimegum.pdf
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ffdfpav8ol3mp5fs0qsdrtqh6/39472101787.pdf
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/78285034823.pdf
    • http://xn----itbbfrdrdbd4bgy6gi.xn--p1ai/webroot/files/files/20729473724.pdf
    • https://patriot.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vrihv6cudgf25rvmo2doaame0q/ziruguwobazudukokiwusoxiw.pdf
    • http://dylogistics.com/userData/board/file/wexiludunakimenogedaduso.pdf
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15538630833.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o7i6b2piicov6td1gffa00ael7/6153265671.pdf
    • https://www.tocbirsen.org.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nezugebitufi.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c549.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC549 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd5b.bin
45be2f10aa8a5e8bba1714e96919394a47808a35bcc4fdb981e07fdb3bc2d470
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5B 16892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010925.bin
997f59df1df975b9ea917cabf707f82ea2a30e43fa186dc4cf1b4d4aab2081eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10925 10768 bytes