Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3cb5e4e54667271…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:38:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: fd91496be99194c248eb47433a1164a6 SHA-1: 9eeca3766c06a65f33e280d3da95c81705748746 SHA-256: d3cb5e4e54667271dab64deb3dd37ddb57b153849a8b222b2f154a9eb13849c6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sars+subsistence+allowance+2019+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://spostojow.pl/userfiles/file/97203541154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2ec43bbf4---logejemagubifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofebevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allaboutdowney.com/userimages/56060430940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed5f36c1d4---23343457902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szelvedojavitasmiskolc.hu/files/files/82950549321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e84b8ade07---91757243510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/534173e396852bfbf6cf156747a11798/72501648840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fff730fd68480c2fff9b770c054bbb0d/8641281300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/gilowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/kedivotusenilosevosowupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qenqrvjlj12g5r2hrh05tf6lq6/xuvufefofaradakuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bennyhigh73.com/clients/3/33/33ce00c6a031cf3b17a3dcf69aaa7594/File/bisalod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhadatonline24h.com/Images_upload/files/88566191537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47654246498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atsolution.org/userfiles/file/20210831143826669091797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/31123939518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c93cafec21f94800981b86ce420e8fc8/livezeganizunasevawejoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents//files/derabavilepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ng5j5obob18eaovifer03s0095/pamudokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33919955997.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_off0000d8c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C2 17824 bytes
SHA-256: e1876e040c2038ad1d477ce5cdfae0dd9a4fd49144528ca6c524cfe6130111ac
font_01_sfnt_off00010781.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10781 11476 bytes
SHA-256: e2d63cb45853413a305dc477c0c5aceb83b01b8ce235689f102383d9785d71d5
font_02_sfnt_off000122a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122A8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1