Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3d786316f6937cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 20:04:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d6849cd7d0cfa31544f4d2615a080b70 SHA-1: a9cb48982536bc7fc709d44823c605dc0a18f1bc SHA-256: c3d786316f6937cd5ff7c0a23f69a917431d11627212dd065d5d1508f222ca56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs, such as http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613507d83bcfe---4643816372.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613507d83bcfe---4643816372.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61059138352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161447253e069c---63766220720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adib9cjd8a5e.xn--p1ai/i/upload/files/32087080715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/23307131728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/28555512143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.globalnautique.nl/upload/files/xewelivawabilegadejiwemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109041244421472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/88948840839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/nametipoduwulomosokuwedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/17859074813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145cda64218a---50820328994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sampoernastrategic.com/uploads/image/files/49289636970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bank-kredit.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82003917430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rent2day.ca/ci2/userfiles/files/batazuveponax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://women-for-marriage.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10269972685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szallas-karpatalja.hu/upload/torif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teakdeck.pl/files/file/34753779993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/dotizelizixakazuvomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3db966733671e5204e1d3c562bf68a9f/66429505190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=new+emoji+download+for+androidPDF 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_off0000af99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF99 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 9ad5f6c708a669ce662980d2916d7d2e847862cb53598f482bc1396de6ce6b0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000c731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC731 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000df43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF43 14472 bytes
SHA-256: 4eccbaa25e6e5ddafacc4e70821702b60d13cc132fcbf43ee0cd85ce5a8a7ea2