Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cad3c4c07fce901b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:44:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3da5db3eb4bde4d0ee78538eb2f222c9 SHA-1: 006669371340b1abe7de57b3335a0c851f0a8a43 SHA-256: cad3c4c07fce901b144ac8349b438573bc185cb48d60ae330c6136fa96049220
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites. The presence of numerous links to potentially malicious content, coupled with the ML classifier and ClamAV detection, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document's structure and the nature of the embedded URLs suggest an effort to lure victims into downloading further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a275ba2ed9---28517289096.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fc23c10199---matejemamegawupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hferrynetworks.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210720_636D875D74D0414A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/pinesobetubetenapodoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27c0cdda440be8e32c7e91469e78f1b9/jojijinofujeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/14520856534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/52106147943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5acf0e2b26---50903529746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a66cf8ae36a---9844893750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965ef41293fbac76ebc9630a8cbd58d1/5883237770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/jakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oshcongregation.com/userfiles/file/32204428251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cisseo.net/userfiles/files/54380183183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/lovoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourownadviser.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zijasuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/kuselutigarigabekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltwhitmanclassof1965.com/clients/c/cc/ccbfa8a87e297cd67510599b8aebcb74/File/9752127655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regiefranchet.fr/userfiles/files/tarusozefurubokotava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fillaracingacademy.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zujad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/fusowivuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafemsoffice.com/userfiles/files/69369609051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elyriahigh1974.org/clients/0/05/052ab20d644b737728595af1a47b4450/File/59346625456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/zasurixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=research+paper+on+simulation+and+modeling+pdfPDF 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_off0000db21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB21 11212 bytes
SHA-256: b94cce934a9d1db80829c4ebba967ed1a55370e978b041d987047cd5b7144656
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F8 18188 bytes
SHA-256: 82c3f99df6834043bcb8798c711a614e2acb15bb00359bd8e33e20596ac481f7
font_02_sfnt_off00012435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12435 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1