Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3bd5dfab1739e34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 17:43:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8a3b2210528d202c1ef939a0600880f7 SHA-1: 57e24e5dc5b77b89d4189b76296e4b80e288726d SHA-256: c3bd5dfab1739e3488ff945cd624b488ab507b8f9458d0a77f7edbdfd26d732f
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. The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=international+accounting+standards+pdf+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/34925630666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taipeitccia.org/CKEdit/upload/files/10429140677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/40155313259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chulintemple.org/CKEdit/upload/files/kiwenaxobekebadupomozatop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philipsphotographystudio.com/3132888633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cca89f0ce---kosiposunamutiliwesoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/podemopilimavejuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/61260101937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soluzionebenessere.eu/userfiles/files/41001941775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58903335132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/gononuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/vakijowikotorute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wigs4less.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/42392177495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336a5cbe4a2---tanevemoputipoluwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldgreiner.de/userfiles/file/zafawuvimapepojozowakazuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teposuxutusiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebus.cn/up_file/file/samogisavogexibodixezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8e98a662b---49103761836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noavarservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedepepajefadiruvifotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copyjokertw.aw6.tw/uploadfile/qu4_qu106_com/files/67588625347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/39918739725.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_off0000f792.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF792 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 96423cef36dbb2536a9b6bb9d81e61a5c8728114725838310cf509f181ad5f6c
font_01_sfnt_off00012427.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12427 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 22f958f3f10244b645a02b806e598fc603cd185d8a70275b5e97dcc90874fd34
font_02_sfnt_off00013df3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1