Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3826493c6690b29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 19:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: bc328ffae7b965e6b8c2737e965b6bd5 SHA-1: 46dd9717ef7abc71df7b2c588da7405dbb2cdfa4 SHA-256: c3826493c6690b296216462fbd378eed4e4e3a646514de6e446d09598ab53cb8
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being part of a link farm hosted on compromised websites, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13aacd7a61190d24279d14562a7bdbe/94974490755.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thuephotocopytaihanoi.com/upload/files/50324220121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/xobusavibolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149ce4036eca---jotarifevuganudovawenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mozartcantat.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161467b68957fe---xosodiluru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmercury.com/uploads/files/jokubezakaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/zidute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f32877467---39271376466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/vusijewixit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/67984445204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mountainbrookbuilders.com/home/mountain/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22178078692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15886331289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tierlistei.ch/downloads/wegetexubexagise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0babc2da3fc09f58d2cd237a19f3f44/64236470879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewt.cz/res/file/39337934709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tgtech-auto.com/userfiles/file/26514942761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/87553126296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/deduredosiviwezubozovus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c90d73377c10f7dc7ca8efc25090394/86646990281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloverdiamond.com/file/85655797228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/13662113310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/davonejoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/kivutasetizipavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/71721752899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents/files/didasinivupategogesidubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzaidele.com/images/upload/File/19169392799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=douyin+apk+latest+versionPDF 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_off0000be41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE41 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 72283f8a139ef2f02cac0d42569ef4b6f8fadc21ffdac75392df67304274a620
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA0B 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 847a60b1a3c78a5675fc2be8da9173bf9fc81fcf28228f9c9252ab4a8be37060
font_02_sfnt_off0001028a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1