Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3808275ae60a159…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:17:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3862757d63f35c4dbfddadf48cf45848 SHA-1: de0be5f87e9a8cf894b50051d349bf37d958ca81 SHA-256: c3808275ae60a159fb97124affd43ef7233c0f67d13284bb3d56ec0882e405c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to multiple URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document's structure and embedded links suggest it's designed to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210729/file/86683011319.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b8c0c269cb---99465589161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvservice.it/file/33361665506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peggylittlelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12151363861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb2f1e021b---xatewixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownherndon.com/uploads/files/fodiridowuvorikefunuxetuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drhuanghair.com/uploads/files/202108220946591340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/xizivupuxabuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inphilong.com/upload/files/nepuzorabigopededizamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.la-providence-ehpad.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemuzajemamifuwavuson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pluimveebeurs.com/userfiles/file/zujusujib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6c8ea7d4---sedanukavomenawiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/99942336507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shepardfarm.com/clients/877021/File/zapesezusaxulef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/wejipeluvafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81996554256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serini-cloud.pl/uploads/editor/file/sogefuxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbestdesign.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/27917478396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/nenexibuwuvozuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/musejamewukenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://micronforgacsolo.hu/UserFiles/file/buxaselusiximelovenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/rodazevefewuwusobebugasiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607594a10a0d8---kilagufom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55ee2d49be---13433202113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocjqsjoroo578bm9bt08vcl5kl/soxavixazaputimakamutiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/kagagidipawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=simulation+modeling+and+analysis+averill+law+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_off0000fe94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE94 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 1c74124fc3954815b0f453ff51bb4eab1ee2defb7d5a3eeee0868eb531ec268c
font_01_sfnt_off000118e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130FA 19272 bytes
SHA-256: 827f2a04d417c31777213979f0575cd5468186ac433b210a05f13abe431c8da1