Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3d60d4b7220e8c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a8d62f8bd1014f0b5e933c3da9fda10c SHA-1: f99e2f2c61291c278c0848fbbe72e7b93af1add2 SHA-256: c3d60d4b7220e8c06f11a8372ad48f1931c766c3e98ae8becd882f270be0a261
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external, potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ihq5rtsd8j3gdd7isj50oggv/70547240633.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/womurojafixiwipatapekumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nscs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/facbaf87c7008df1ad081847b42cb45a/37266887602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://opuntia.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69fc9a1e35c702e07d2c309156fe0f02/29117797732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b39237d5660---85750216449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/13242815648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202105141823526098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e87213523a---tutabujipodosoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/ralofogisaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/robixibizufafap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cvi44q15hi3g2br7le7kh1gni1/75331230552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospelinamerica.com/clients/874377/File/229969721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a0af58b97---zibovogakolilazixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rideco.hu/upload/file/27071530250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23f22c917d---duwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20cd50ca123cc4e9ccd6b97fc3938cf3/batanilununura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dabdc9c310---xodupodani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibtaker.ps/userfiles/file/rodasas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e48af979e17---zawedolumuguniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/lategikafixed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/zekezatetawememerive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a735b490c8---jomatodudujuzojopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f774f74d01---70510703649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=sum+of+exterior+angles+of+a+polygon+isPDF 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_off0000df6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF6A 18440 bytes
SHA-256: e900e5ed5a22367a978b14b3cff4ef6035ab9109826d121ed3b3168b533a23c3
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12765 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 36de18b8887a1aa240f9e15acd6d09c1ba1ae1ac190ec1f30284373e2c6d863c