Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3cd0ce424e8b207…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 54350c26d1f2aab664f453bdbeb7bd23 SHA-1: 396f51d3605e9dd75b77b45707b84e041c11d043 SHA-256: d3cd0ce424e8b207df5f37ca14f50fe4c6e475e2c6b9a46419708a006b88d99e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs clearly point to a malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609022ca1cfa5---97422279401.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://walosports.cl/userfiles/file/27479344177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/jujotemano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe4b0dd9777---96472801239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db8892f0cc5ef6b581ef16dc8a92b02c/sanupozoseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinedafoundation.org/imageuploads/file/jejabavenubagiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdfc1e2288---sawojavenurizoronajomup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://djk-winkel.de/images/uploads/file/foxesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d2799e9bdcc228b1a1f494fa2e1a3dd/kabikegajanis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jub90g79on3ae3lh3nupe1bf95/zudoxixoziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/18351334108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/golovixirukasoburobovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rymwid-training.com/userfiles/file/kuvojuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rarahil.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82772408568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607abc9d980f3---59683995267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/90030282977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/dafaloxexikuvaluwuxemaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/it6stg8st7cqc2ekt2531r7ckn/58340678508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/348e814b17716dcb2b8a37ef45bb1a57/xuwowarirobejamikatadema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nedirajtebosnu.net/userfiles/file/24372747592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37549835425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensegun2.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kadosudiwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cc-loges.com/uploads/file/vasoralakekofulaxodenuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/zoxinewopoluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=tabla+periodica+sargent+welch+pdf+2019PDF 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_off0000d8cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8CB 11552 bytes
SHA-256: f1ec436bd28ce5679d762fdd32f80c7b5aefc594a71b78c82bf9d0e00aa803c5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D7 17796 bytes
SHA-256: 0c931f0e41bd455717d46ccae245c41c1ecb0ae24300f4237bf08eaa27bc3a5a
font_02_sfnt_off000121a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1