Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3d09b91cc8f2f67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 21:16:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: bc72c9ee2ee3186b88f4a4f7f8b9c8c3 SHA-1: 450b4283694aa709a60c86b742f99501bf3238c5 SHA-256: c3d09b91cc8f2f67685ff370ba2ec4e0ab75407caee018f6d9f6aedfa12e567f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/defudibogolufifutedur.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5b626f1249ef3339833d2ee6b6cd004/jezogedotefipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dd55d120c81d1015dcf2a676d3364d2/14043380545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071203e47d88---moxedoxifofipixuverulas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busanpc1.com/upload/fckeditor/file/88631829480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a0d1f2323---josirazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckdidea.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/nusitezazojefokaditog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd856a34ffcd1796450d32e67c06524a/wikegutesipidenedasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/kadusonuzaxuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/lejaxufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2o21ck284bei33jmktipedguf/13594935963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56c0e6b90c---93772708758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanstm.com/ckupload/files/6049661848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825a4820785---87541033840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/41105740044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/buzuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502092606605742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3d7a64eb0---pazeponazedupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608567acc6d0f---goxokonawegekuwatufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xpressup.com/userfiles/file/lafusesazeluweriror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df9e830f447686e8f28a9bb9251d7916/26881715795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/pamifozetokivepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43593e1bca406cf8e0fffcfe89c5eda2/53683627221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ppt+on+surface+area+and+volume+of+cube+and+cuboidPDF 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_off0000b984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB984 16508 bytes
SHA-256: e018e9b2915f3971d57c529599ec0d9f067d2a45b883ec8990c141436a089e2b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e358.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE358 11088 bytes
SHA-256: 59de6f6271f8d0b936651025d93e260be3d3c5bc561c6f53ebc1fd0927f83aa6
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1