Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3e2c447cda1013f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.1 KB Created: 2021-07-23 20:55:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a63f25223d9ffa77e6a0e5eaeb33238a SHA-1: 17ee7f2937561d71bbf742f44b8c24e32ef2111f SHA-256: c3e2c447cda1013f0e236d6dbd5dc50eefc287bc210a7b2da9e1c2c88219cbae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abaea55fb1a---dawosifenapofajama.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/49207268593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/24514611605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cba0cf68a1a---54374514933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30357acb7d66fc78873ab377dd77068d/jubanewerumilatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48592aca03df35b53def33db85d5af23/67380013093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/mejixonudakired.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef95ed0586---58888006229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/21111031177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb08fd1b90e---rusobokezurijeranejeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835e816292b---38065944691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/fudinefujijonoronivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a247ab7b435d7118779a6a05553dab8/fikuzazijoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwisevigatetezese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3fe0c8c36117c3e11ec5be707f3c1b82/71993202286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0a68757cdd---zasafotuwufijivokekudoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allg-gyn.ch/userfiles/file/teruvizepimuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/fasurolekotiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d478a2eb550---56922174221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq9h5i6gku6f9tgkg136brvk97/moxefebamix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607430e1eba47---zubomumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gentlemensquartersbarbershop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbf59bdcc0bcd37a9905a1131ac77ad3/21337062770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/futif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricarda-allegra.de/userfiles/file/tajalakubawaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23707442703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=my+hero+academia+season+3+episode+1+tagalog+versionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001252e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252E 18664 bytes
SHA-256: e13a1fe4f66dc9c97aaac0b679fdfd18934e9ac5aae27b4dbc038dc7fbbe936c
font_01_sfnt_off00015665.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15665 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 1042555a9f455c2e49c10015557e916aad7f44ac53fdae3d9763e1bbae9075e0
font_02_sfnt_off000170da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x170DA 4368 bytes
SHA-256: 7c7b9c510584a7efe0822a9dbefe7ece208853557a466be13202d926ec0d3fd2
font_03_sfnt_off000181c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x181C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1