Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c965e3671b89a3c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 08:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3ad34f4fee89188e77d9022eaf1b744a SHA-1: d9452f230857bdeb1138c35b3cb997d889ae3224 SHA-256: c965e3671b89a3c39f9278681c5bb1edac4ab7793c8f4ec74d46fd51af1b023b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting domains. This behavior is characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely phishing pages or malware download sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cmbkdve0frqsbkbnedqhb99u5/wezerajuzawitepa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/gabojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warungmimpishio.com/contents//files/fuwabikudigamebopanotenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/95950371307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chartsunlimited.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6330c524c2---82695975108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb832378534---66956113204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/toroliwozebipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kooijobs.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibododuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/paxesumogigibanilis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/koposoleritutos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accapierre.it/userfiles/files/16533452408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95e8ad9d1aa34f219f26a774ae9b94b7/jebaxovigujidukefaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607adc70566c6---dubijorobuwatonof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avanti-kuhni.ru/upload/files/zapavakeramaxenexegogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guitarenko.fr/img/files/livetifizomesapixexevevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/82120705415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khaskhaan.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/dobitezokojunobekamiwemeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://commonwealthsportsawards.com/userfiles/file/25249989062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbaqfskngn1qi.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/95280817134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buffinvestment.com/upload/ckfinder/files/gukibovepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c139fb30d0275424ce951a7f6d5af590/58110566961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609412118d3fd---57279991867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/komojabokavubuzurak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f61ea1cecbe824165cd182af02e8bb4/junifamuvigigiwelam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=human+digestive+picturePDF 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_off00010f46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F46 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001275d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1275D 10848 bytes
SHA-256: f501a0a286b4afd7846a8f5b8debc6daf500c057e5d72d41dd625654fb669c57
font_02_sfnt_off0001401c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1401C 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 1b9abd0cd55cf973cb903168955ef3e27fd0d980ca8ad369dd86edadde0e281a