Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3c7d8d706c6b0ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:24:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4fb0b7608eaeacd34a2a52504b36f45f SHA-1: 805af7ddf346853cdc7aebac43fe805935ab19df SHA-256: d3c7d8d706c6b0ff2aa5be36acfe74473955f779275c12a6dc7144d89eca39fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cara+bikin+cv+pdf+di+hp PDF link annotation
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834fc4868c0---xusesile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1bd3d7pjq2im12e2i0bo1shl0/jumatoropavusamat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/nosonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluekeydigital.com/images/pic/file/18522745375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079becbcd4a6---mafezomexowosusegivit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18153065097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87562010e2ecad3b60a76f2db644c814/64926941435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/13844116107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubffrq7dldo8b62aoboo145327/tomesekatasoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/50401143124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e82f59ff3c---29682458420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728abf1b93d---zedekujafodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c31ae8371dca675d0429dd1dacf323/2216336121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62690593447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://championsforchildren.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3f0ad91001aeaf74bbc00102a47cfb/40414577413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077d379ca7c5---37835515465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c519d027d44---45924560453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/58058016674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/julugetepijijovafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/sanukaluzujexamixuwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/luwapilureranijuwodiral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6ab7a4ffa---jimuwakisanewodifozaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73638973551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakamuzejs.riga.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30675876638.pdfIn 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://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_off000101d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D0 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 507572f3aabe4ef49edaeecadfa0a16d27f421e81020e32a8d2f14d7e2ff4e7e
font_01_sfnt_off00011950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11950 18692 bytes
SHA-256: 718c02fbfb3f906aa8c88a593a18d63fe8f7bdc61f18063c9e05a627dead30a3
font_02_sfnt_off00014a1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A1C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1