Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3d9373c31bbfce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 20:25:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 70b3010e39cce23cd7c06f96f37ed294 SHA-1: 4c7f51b1949073c190113361cbe14e594c1363b5 SHA-256: c3d9373c31bbfce98b23ac33bcd145c9c6cd778ab5beacbfd08083b25ca3307a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains links to external resources, with several pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of numerous unknown URLs indicates a broad redirection strategy, likely to deliver a phishing page or download a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rokimisovujajamopuf.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cdc371b76---30976291921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ototavandosemesi.com/resimler/file/wapaligapodixilejasef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94621871700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/loboninenapugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111b28206bc2---89468766351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/jivuvagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/58878935195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allegypttours.net/userfiles/files/buguzixogatebemaregadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambulatorioveterinariosismondi.eu/file/25478440609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadrozmerne-sklo.cz/uploads/25841836446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaz.sk/editor_uploads/files/pebedapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ea0df60e64---musewugozifaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatvideo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78732866445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/tupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4b643ce1e9---41407658047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f00246cb9e14f5443df6850f8c28524a/xejobaladag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b512faf3fc---23650016763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2ed810c13---mobudobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26fcc70f24---47390192705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=raw+material+for+paint+manufacturing+process+pdfPDF 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_off0000e443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE443 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 3f460f0ba6d71ee7d4f24a21f5fb77c90be53809ded7de9c725a6051dec25193
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001165e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1165E 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 911c272c9567cd2cdff304226c1c18328ac5d21fa99de614033b45981d01363d