Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3bd0b94309efb1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:28:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 1f59bf3669167cbdb3b9496ad06e7b6e SHA-1: f86e0e57a19c3aa3417ee2123b0e396d99de31b7 SHA-256: c3bd0b94309efb1a297b8af90202cecc342e838182b09b03c577f7f6f8cabdf0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further supports the attack pattern of using compromised infrastructure to host or link to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point towards a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cbda18a51---zarizo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/33386961071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/tijusibapugodog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/nakiwipanerifabika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argekaucuk.com/nbg/upload/files/sasefotagukijosigurixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/41041497794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374ce2463d8---logugoritogafosuzaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/71009459401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgbt.us/pds/userfiles/files/34095565610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///sononutokogonete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/fekigodinodubalizineko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/nunamugixoxisopikiketaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/67194788754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18430177763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benhvienlaptop.biz/userfiles/file/bimajarimarem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlionshousing.ca/userfiles/file/rivalodexepolobewewepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://border-collie.ru/sites/default/files/file/kifipukuromafivilisexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ee2ecf3228---51158854717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/fujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-mega.ua/images/uploads/file/80042388861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e201ba7b269203eb011e721fb2e4dec4/losoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ed398220c079f1006c2e71b22040781/70525962661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geobigoni.it/userfiles/files/walubemanux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=bbg+pregnancy+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/balafanevewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c67b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC67B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE8D 17396 bytes
SHA-256: eaec9ac46df1aa623301829b29c4db6873afc048a35ccf9726d02d09b9508e96
font_02_sfnt_off00010ba0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA0 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 3d2da08f21ef0fcbea082584874d771b228b868284596e7eec277fd75f36c06f