Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3a232878e718ff7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 01:44:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 11146ca3327df03e0c74214958f05dcb SHA-1: fe4e7c88198c5b1cbb6ef54ce33b31b04decb53a SHA-256: c3a232878e718ff72777fe26dd2f3568e7bb782f620abe9720ab6197578861b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a likely attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/degujexojaberuvodu.pdf
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/ninibamotideradit.pdf
    • http://phupmirpol.pl/userfiles/file/37000116445.pdf
    • http://mebco.ru/images/file/mefokufubamiganimikasidaf.pdf
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/90341659993.pdf
    • http://ediljolli.com/userfiles/files/jefasuravenano.pdf
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/77863315177.pdf
    • http://studiopetrilli.it/userfiles/files/72550977558.pdf
    • http://www.web-globus.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5907816499.pdf
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/lujovub.pdf
    • http://i-physiology.ru/upload/sodiza.pdf
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/96073070325.pdf
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140b333da0a5---3536066380.pdf
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40856848469.pdf
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/nevumegazij.pdf
    • http://soles2walk.cz/data/file/jitetoperadisaro.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvksgujrbi1qb1iukj93l9kpiv/28539877019.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614273c5ce69c---dutivala.pdf
    • http://ihdbd.org/upload/files/95013511663.pdf
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70332130093.pdf
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/75816886526.pdf
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/burijabaduxuxogedazina.pdf
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etu2ccdf9a42l4cot4id770bfm/xowerawitone.pdf
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/71728089616.pdf
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41211344142.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=netter+anatomy+head+and+neck+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_off0000d0d6.bin
9ed3209c8938340fbe260bb68d403a7fd4d3f503345d3e0b510a558ceaf5d2ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D6 17056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd0b.bin
82038c965b3ad2befec80d77e505ac3067b06744a377adfdd5e20c1e5856bb63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD0B 10760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000115a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115A7 16792 bytes