Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3c6b7b35f515c2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-16 23:47:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5b969b7974e98a38b145032dad35a8a6 SHA-1: 7ecf1e035bc82f025bb4adea76bcff42ec14f2ad SHA-256: c3c6b7b35f515c2cf9b93dd1d1ff9545afc4607b14270406e8648d2b1c7e7644
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites, indicating an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of numerous external links suggest it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

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://lhjmfamily.com/clients/5/5d/5d8645f74963a96e1aea25f3b610eff6/File/34527202065.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f1de4a4e7---95481279641.pdf
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4672fb395d22eda8d126781df625a27/69592891676.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/333448fe59b42ee0653c4acbc6c6cb9f/vageju.pdf
    • https://valleyrestoration.net/home/apf/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83771256538.pdf
    • http://automotiveenergy.cz/userfiles/file/26444535661.pdf
    • https://air-separation-supplier.com/d/files/wosobobivofefoguvudotarod.pdf
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6slfa2kqol43j1cc6f1s0e3h43/zoxaxogewobokuviw.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609845c8e9baa---89095703423.pdf
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160956a3ba6d8a---poloxesobovirazagapopexo.pdf
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfe6d1e5c6---97904651531.pdf
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160799f8ab20a9---weropejavez.pdf
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d799c8bf1de7ee017ba68b5c6fd63d98/18092815539.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738e4286126---nesapinidubefave.pdf
    • http://www.pilonidalsinus.gen.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c50ea5f8de---vulewot.pdf
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/bupavenageneminiwatif.pdf
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.com/uploads/files/97409204671.pdf
    • https://travelworld.ro/userfiles/file/kuxoluduvebivopuwunarodak.pdf
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zenizigavesebomorizili.pdf
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/jebunewozuzeliforod.pdf
    • http://controlsystemco.com/cache/fck_files/file/94187690690.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=trailside+museum+and+zoo
    • 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_off0000f837.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF837 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011049.bin
8ca0cf26d85f7604bd0f9c6ccdca2bfa9fa8cc0cf8b36aeb16969c5d4e8cb9ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11049 17568 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013ec2.bin
845240baf11f0175d3dc7fd4268aee6d4e59cd6bc10a356611fa810d4f5b8f50
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EC2 10432 bytes