Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3745f3d07c36944…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 05:54:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 858051e21fa805524ec0abd93cd126c7 SHA-1: 54fd1bbafc77d758a5c9bdebd61ed8edd6578f74 SHA-256: c3745f3d07c36944bedaab8734dfdfbde293ccd98b12891f7736e30051c090c5
164 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 or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics suggest it's a phishing or malicious PDF, with ClamAV confirming it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of external URI and link farm indicators, along with the ML classifier's high confidence, supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7762762436.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/nuxinesuribejutiwejobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/rovukogewelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/53841288835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c90b1a47668---75400614565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/metuwuxudam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35409943977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.org/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/tunogepoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansing.nl/userfiles/file/99109209603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skywaynepal.com/userfiles/file/89933996580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e03f18630---kodogoxolumetuwopawan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ca09638d5c7d61cfd3c48411cd8463f/famezejibibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bebe6f5445b---51601684185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611549122f2cd---sewopadokelilari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/66713028422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7e7c7585f6---zeremubuxutofazekujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pepen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4c4053d16a9568ce2e5cf0e15cc6f91/dupawixeneneteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096cb5aa49d6---mazog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/38141690519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aff93289cd7ca30ded4fae2601284e91/89839237649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/lapajabipilewuwopozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/17698029908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.azurwelcomeservices.com/userfiles/file/nejunepesubitozafij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94028896401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=fill+in+the+blanks+with+appropriate+prepositions+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000fcce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000114e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114E0 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 6e2520b26704ba756de453f95cd0c2f636ff2ac25043b1688d63b4d85922292c
font_02_sfnt_off0001446d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1446D 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 5f509ca1ac410d35ae0bd40841748add5e4af29a422e7c3d75eebb75db29b116