Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3f4efd3ff8947b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-06-21 11:31:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 23f2c2ba9693653817fa25cc0fc45954 SHA-1: 34586288ae1a83b38c152625401cec87343f9d6e SHA-256: c3f4efd3ff8947b6da656f11792ecc7031baaa1f6c5579d0f5b5eb0b2091cff6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or phish users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document is part of a scheme to leverage compromised infrastructure for malicious distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the document's structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or malware distribution attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3656425f39---kasaberonasap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/521a76def155d729dbfa89aeec4f46c7/70782346745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendymamy.pl/userfiles/file/56487802643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083335fbcdac---62382148965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/38739982900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cornucopiafrederick.com/uploads/files/17953146530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607afa0675202---lonadigubigiwisanugefuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a8b457a43e48060814e01c36d5fb018/62877339512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v5oltnuoqij215vudip5u5fcgj/zowipaxasalafenojowopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaae74b4acf7b7177d68887992ebd87f/82078792904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents//files/40610065278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/pipuxusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0883364644---90457500484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/24383813532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hj7bmser859i0dpv4d1u1l3bb1/nabofir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=videoder+pc+2020+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC5B 5220 bytes
SHA-256: c84059eda895a1af14033bfd2c800218cc06abd9ed1ce92d69c400eb7c40b258
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE43 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 1ed4c4aedb6960eb1f5e13abc48b6b2f6811bc7feaffaacd7fe94856c571b153