Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca3c1fcf16c8f883…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:31:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3662a9fb1c0c8a61645376b1be154125 SHA-1: eea9a1abb255a2929a712fe0cd21e819c826161e SHA-256: ca3c1fcf16c8f883ed55209cc918856d10e38aef15ec64d2ed32102777c3f55c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. These links likely serve as a link farm to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites, aligning with a spearphishing attachment attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://korea-labels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71560877495.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://air-con.ru/upload/files/99843015218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/rutufuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/gopivavemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gizmakina.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/64408416295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terfigyelokamera.info/files/file/jatozonomadovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/88370727474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k85shj16h-561lt.com/contents/files/rawutifoxasatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613204eee6c4e---52019416793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bongkartuantakur.com/contents/files/kozerikujitoloxazas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasudaihocsupham.com/Images_upload/files/13456437392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mazofewalebujimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroshima-teishaku.com/userfiles/file/vimerewoxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friend5190.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71697458276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137663597e4d---bagapepamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iavjt59de4mtmmip21ic5j19uv/77475209894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vugazepizuloneruxet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/zujipolobatoxemiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/naxotigegizuwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161439831a2c03---75719312069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_60CB867B80A27622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/79900401270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/nefilumero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crystaltrade.hu/data/file/94936123360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa3791e016---woxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=rainforest+forest+floor+factsPDF 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_off0000e687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE687 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE99 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 8b8a3d2b99de7d2efa13621c92074e425f81feb8fa62957447bc5b18ad2e26a3
font_02_sfnt_off00012b4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B4E 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 078cfaa00292e1cb4df9bcc6c28bad2cafa83068e23c382d92b194937d09ce4a