Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3c1a7a77804b052…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-29 00:06:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 37b31ddcf95128301f11ebd14b788aee SHA-1: 4977de7902f2bdfc61c766f7bc8c0f1cb7b2c30d SHA-256: d3c1a7a77804b05292f52741710ab61b5abbfe5a57c4b2289aca10176df30077
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the PDF structure indicate an attempt to exploit user interaction for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://tuivaivietnam.com/uploads/files/20692330617.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://papinchess.ru/userfiles/file/fusotugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4bf314765---93484837671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/64108468325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/nidulopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u2l6b1i9apajnb4vj0e3m30g43/fasunurukoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85226580928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jeevandeepspecialcare.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76316083969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30435702970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.ca/userfiles/file/zuminuminajanogojarovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kelkenaghshband.com/app/webroot/img/files/gugowomodebipixezekoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/domubifebijodaresosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xovenujiditavakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07vqe57mu7ti6je84vn5gf5o17/muzateduloxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/71238462188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/88756577896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwwilson.com/uploads/files/7123755125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tenesuxudomatadelopodoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/fubarabanifanesekemanini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/jibojijofedepukisarij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/tabodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/fibejedoxuweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ffe0f5dfb9---27259070611.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+puzzle+games+for+androidPDF 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_off0000b9d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9D2 11208 bytes
SHA-256: 5adf959d847b0b14cb27121cbcf8f97074ded02dcc813edf1ead18c66743f3c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000d374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD374 19564 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd6cefcbe94a2eb34678e63b18396de503d38e75218681573595327271cfda0
font_02_sfnt_off00010667.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10667 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1