Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3b2b5febd0166f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-06-28 03:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2763328138ff0cecb18331f32bb277aa SHA-1: cb6f7e2901a7fc798d61eae495cab347132794fe SHA-256: c3b2b5febd0166f6b4eaa6c9809017059db99c98af579f267ba79edd70ec7ea7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083c7d78246e---58133887970.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/munaxasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aikni6a0b.xn--p1ai/images/file/25028641865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28344218d31c411ba96d5e895ea22b7d/vokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cddfct.com/up_files/file/93111400777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73cfd6a50a---supepali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eada64ed5517bf59bfe8206fc2cc5d0a/zuzafarujoxivizixurulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/user_data/image//file/divexigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oddluzanie.net/userfiles/file/79071556442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073762c47141---vevuwalobevatowonigovivoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c268a58d4874894f5d8241cc2f3ed509/taputirepukaxufoporux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d422298d38402c441fdec8e90dca38/32087349011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phannhan.vn/files/usersfiles/files/fovobefadalilogaboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/70090816625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3jq7hbg77u0n953vsep82g89te/50572259598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4cahge0ckhdvg4gd5m92ogoo7/zuvagemogejilorufepajekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea2dfaalkjggvk02e0n8r57mci/sifukawafej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sergey-yushkov.com/pict/file/34230241354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles//files/robigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/61763940503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vlcrjcr610gkun355vlajvbkdn/zodikebinaxebenazusizuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.d-table.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30578e835ddc1386ae851345c89cd0f1/desuluwefusevefusobaripiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c909bc6e65---koruvunenaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cocoal.com/uploads/file/vasev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pal-kont.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71664a37ff8dd4308ecc079734ae4ea1/20973413397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/robovoromokimovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/97533082528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/76872422098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=joan+rivers+quotes+funnyPDF 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_off0000f39a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF39A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010bb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BB1 10580 bytes
SHA-256: cc9316fe65a5b1353758f3f15c00344598c8b186e1972c17da30cf838396eb48
font_02_sfnt_off0001240e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1240E 17532 bytes
SHA-256: d56d2f33c6999986528d9f7678c65ee7313bfabbb31c51d6f2aa0adacbf9823a