Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3bd0a89414b1c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 10:42:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 619bb14ce1091ab7901ecb842a9bf0f2 SHA-1: 8b54c361462e3068db4af33551ccabafe62ea0be SHA-256: ca3bd0a89414b1c376e150969c911329fd220f1d6c94c7a2025239443e7252f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+am+a+rider+full+song+download PDF link annotation
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0a0dbbc688---9242523016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607592e27f9e4---62499317735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad1e98690d68dbbe6ac3b2638be415df/zuzebofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edad6da9f00c6c27fb0deb6c8b70b128/27348242260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608eb205e0e02---25105409474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d168d6f6f3---12986659159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe26d78e80aac07876ff334c3080c71a/mojadatidebiparin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/zizilara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cananalimdar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr6edc3c4aip6ka998sok5dpmg/mibodifepixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adcbc004c2a---88393349874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giolog.biz/images/bulk_images/files/pogufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e56dafd40544b83387db718b8829b1f5/vivafimuluwowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b8effe60080d9d52fe00964b35ed7f9/lejofatesaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f463828c7bcc9772883e2d46dfbb7d8f/xedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/xojirurerorojidiriwozulag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm2l57h675kfh1k43lj0u2jh3g/31491276727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmogml0eh3epn9lcunh0jsacs1/moxabinasagazemelaselure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC775 5256 bytes
SHA-256: cb473e071e31467a5e69436f93fe1da9a6781ddfac4503f8cdf735f496c41e2a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD947 2140 bytes
SHA-256: fa98316bad0ee393e4244be63b1d230beb4724cf855be96ad4f2c87a5b302ae2
font_02_sfnt_off0000e321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE321 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 21e693384dbaef3fc4f47f3f7215d12309a645cdde6d7860c2a84c3194913f32