Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3ed3f6b27af5f96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 22:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: f5db6fdaadf51b9287a5b162e7b612a6 SHA-1: e4de342aa6c560393e9dc8d3cf2aba6f10b5812e SHA-256: c3ed3f6b27af5f9664be4ca7e1cf3d3e2fba8939653756c6b394ba12e0b2905e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious external websites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dh5o9j07pddv1t26lo8g1amudj/27774022256.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725f844efe9---wixikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84e7e7f425---63350990446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e88a024ff6---jopedegonijokojisamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lorichphoto.com/pictures/file/68008805965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hediyevideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4103475af8---12527603360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youstore21.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3063f66ffa079b705405ab62b56691d/dozujokewezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c5ce49cda3a6a7c42c90308fdc8de67/71541644347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ne9an7jk8178ln15i6dq3suj2/gejuwitox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a78f39a59---xefuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgapopovaphoto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b508f0b3e81bd64a28f9a3a2e365e9c/podubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpftgntj51ers7nqjlecck91ug/47175776621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8e4c47b6ee025158023b38f4dbedda5/8879527781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/zumafuzusono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzqzg.com/d/files/vesejewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/vizodoxipeleluxazefegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3bd9323ec1---2607038102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/gikitevevisalonenixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/vikuditilinitiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e803c032543dca023a088f43d7710553/94398896512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbef5861fadbfa215d6714f80f683b56/75324990674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=macroeconomics+olivier+blanchard+7th+edition+solutionsPDF 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_off0000d4bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4BD 18912 bytes
SHA-256: a41f99cb1e54b36f4c6ad61822803087535e51e37f365b418a3b3716b9fecb00
font_01_sfnt_off00010626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10626 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 072a4662a8f58664d11f7d78262eb37025da61f470218b2c6da75f236526be23
font_02_sfnt_off00011f87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00013794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13794 1908 bytes
SHA-256: f75583dcc3baca4a21a1090704ce86dedcefa7e69ffb01547499be958eef23ee