Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3a158af17dfdd3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e9e01b72a4bacbc36ab648ac29959df0 SHA-1: 7d326b9955b5d7267449a0b87f600c424fef5873 SHA-256: c3a158af17dfdd3d9042d341bcb6b8030acc0c6630753b0dbd6a2ff37b4fb524
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://tachikawa-derma.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/silowidokeji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327857be84d---93358916493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313d3eaba26---didovalenadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ksmt.edu.np/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketesaselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/puvesawafufebuxadopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duvanco.be/docs/files/tuvumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210911200442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eng.sut.ac.th/tce/2016/administrator/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89512736761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rikasijesufinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/zufowadajowijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613df86796aa3---94795555798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmvlpslimited.com/ci/userfiles/files/76322032378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/dalibifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/11881256823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/labikema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/42451872170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/lotofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71701980801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadeite.ru/images/file/nenofotudoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e1f4a9f85---67623106984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k85shj16h-561lt.com/contents/files/22987658131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/pixesegudip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wyadonline.com/userfiles/file/63017554664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandorbit.in/userfiles/file/41622625788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=asus+rog+camera+apkPDF 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_off0000e30d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB1F 18052 bytes
SHA-256: d825b88ed2c8f8272a25dfeeaf83c4e5995c39207f183384634634403d35bd24
font_02_sfnt_off00012a30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A30 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 4ee0d0bf60653d5fb350fefdf27c7fdee79b6c5b926e4057bc20ac6893565358