Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3fa85e10cb93102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.9 KB Created: 2021-08-19 18:03:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8a8d76298f8aad0ac3230219b85814ed SHA-1: 704486748a8141a5aab5e56e29a31e7caee032bb SHA-256: c3fa85e10cb93102639f91e26611428906c5e6eb824fc5cee1feccf0b97e12f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM firings strongly suggests the document's purpose is to distribute or host malicious content via these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://sinching.com/uploadpic/files/202108160633172453.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artetendasud.it/userfiles/files/37984139502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8cd69c94e9---55300006661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3b3ade6b7---kiladurix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunjipsc.com/uploads/files/71522296020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dereformasenalicante.com/archivos/files/6945575662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78725556039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orldoc.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onj1qh4s5sv2snda7iokmvbcf5/rilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumkin.ru/files/files/susafugafegezarige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4545ca4e1---dixexigamurudojevolad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermatologomiguelgallego.com/miguel/fck/file/30084539403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b0c96f828---11334410920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pranabkumar.com/fckimages/file/niwodidukasusedixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2inu2vhgktgmolpjvqvmpd55u2/14178945035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec98cf4b2d3---bosejodezepulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/zamirimixotagibuxozalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7abe84f3b9---basibabalezov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j3o4p8bl4d72m45ll5bkst0rt2/pujivorejoxujufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f60d196698---latelarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994f23657a8---bojunikedaxovuwavif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6153f7b183bad49235e6f134dd446e5c/jazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/letinutezapiwijipezivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/31253292929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=la+catedral%27+by+agust%C3%ADn+barrios+mangor%C3%A9+tabsPDF 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_off0000fa3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11250 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 691014cc21f581092fb05ee826577722cde409788e1d6d5efe745dbb7c693e00
font_02_sfnt_off0001400b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1400B 11276 bytes
SHA-256: f3e48ab020c8fd6430f2e2be7cd88a377f5989b1afe442bc0d3b0aad1c5738d4