Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3cc512342207744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 09:57:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 871a6d3bff502b589f5b4998d69014e1 SHA-1: 303140c58142085559a22e8246be00d103b5d3f1 SHA-256: d3cc512342207744c881ab4738e0e8d80dcc3b72ba92cf17af48d87586ab0b34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm or redirection mechanism to phishing or malware distribution sites. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is designed to host and distribute links. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=subject+relative+clauses
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4da6dc6d33---16863077052.pdf
    • http://richardarnoldalumni.com/clients/a/ad/ad1dcfa6f69ac51e3fe6bec18f6cf6d6/File/58382459668.pdf
    • http://yevres.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69101796291.pdf
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/20519934740.pdf
    • http://professional-tuner.at/uploaded/file/texemozelutodavanuku.pdf
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/18353162482.pdf
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b88a4f03936e8afa0c7206bd57b4d6d/wolibogoxofasabofib.pdf
    • http://inglewood1968.com/clients/68690/File/85288967987.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc466535c0---tevodinik.pdf
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3b7bce423---90594188080.pdf
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/42941466364.pdf
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/874096647.pdf
    • https://takitech.hu/userfiles/file/gepejo.pdf
    • http://writtenmail.com/upload_images/file/63532513078.pdf
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/64784264503.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106e2944d186---kaxasez.pdf
    • http://xn--o79av69abka850ab6c.com/upload/file/202107012116354255.pdf
    • http://www.electricman.in/demo/frontend/web/uploads/files/77643473506.pdf
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/31860929274.pdf
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/gubojabenazoguselapodixez.pdf
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/lefutofal.pdf
    • https://trsoftyazilim.com/genelresimler/file/joxisosovozusisisako.pdf
    • http://brno-skoleni.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12804841038.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011933.bin
61d228bf990a3c991bdc7d395dcf13ffa4895026338b213b775cf519d66f7905
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11933 10508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013142.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13142 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014954.bin
bca344373203b06556611703cdfbbff9fa8434ab62f1441abba8dc9ea2f6b058
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14954 21616 bytes