Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3ea47a5575ecd74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 03:23:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5ce9f623494bb5650a9959f64849f8fd SHA-1: 62d47903713574c0e6f703c74c71618bb175b9bf SHA-256: c3ea47a5575ecd744980fd32a4e51266dadba36b18d3febb5e931de077ea94ac
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating a primary purpose of redirecting users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+face+shape+detector+app+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://hbisan.com/userfiles/file/93059743326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarthanamparisara.org/apadmin/uploads/userfiles/files/94492231784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141046d903d8---sutoban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlumk9b8b2kb8fripu01dartt4/61690969730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julietlandau.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/3504536320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/59265549063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/87161467890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613146c44433e---bofawolaxidatefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendstyleimage.com/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fewo-spreewald-schoetzigk.de/brandenburgtag/img/editor/file/soziwazuxoginusefamaxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnermind.cz/images/files/wewogofusiwekowegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/sinunusego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weldingportal.it/userfiles/file/71005624120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/99510261304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147a12fa60aa---40925654746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbox.ru/images/shared/file/11734605469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oomedia.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25081565376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ih-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18692154671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7cb246581---55449153786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f27szerviz.hu/upload/files/94838645623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210905161457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscworld.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidogolunakevisuxufofugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.og2c.com/images/file/manefebuzaduvudolozedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/lavorerutunekuwigonaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b147.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB147 14612 bytes
SHA-256: 2ee4935866630aeb250ef014b9474cd78138d72524d69901af424f771dacd120
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000edc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC1 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 687c0b08b0b84e166e3d4223e6a759af5c817a785c7a094ec87dea8a74eb122b