Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc3a54565054ed8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 15:34:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1e66be5f8a6061d0239be5a9367247c9 SHA-1: 103adc8481f7464e9eeb27f9a07ba64768861d41 SHA-256: dc3a54565054ed8eb7a652f10519bd981469802308f1bce9775077a97ce662d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised CMS uploads. ClamAV detected it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc95d256fe---89233977374.pdf
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents//files/52628313020.pdf
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/37328674947.pdf
    • http://cuacuonbinhduong.com/upload/files/35248868866.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1606f032057fd7---kunovogod.pdf
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dedb0c327f25d3dd9865819262d6eaf5/punejexewan.pdf
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/murilude.pdf
    • http://aqcons.vn/upload/files/29740214841.pdf
    • https://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bl8u2misu2q3jinsl643hk3u9l/noxediwebikonopopapim.pdf
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/93364202438.pdf
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/20132861619.pdf
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160722b2152c7a---vefimotija.pdf
    • http://polymer-optix.de/userfiles/file/98321798324.pdf
    • http://asbufestival.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/ligamununabikidifezadon.pdf
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/556d5e602ca8f50d57bad51e468a27b6/60048018987.pdf
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11c7cf6214bb227dcf176e1ee95b93c8/xuradiwukuxonusez.pdf
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/lawizizumilisawar.pdf
    • https://mangallagn.com/images/file/paxosixobibixilevirofe.pdf
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/batogi.pdf
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75686a9f0e---labizep.pdf
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607203f31f115---43409523023.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc76df1d720---13908394301.pdf
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/betuleku.pdf
    • http://u15.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jatalavilaboverarepifuke.pdf
    • https://pakianco.ir/data/image/uploads/news/files/folar.pdf
    • http://kiiga.ru/userfiles/file/36347096615.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+la+aponeurosis+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_off0000b4f5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4F5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cd07.bin
2c744623ba5ee461eb201de92d73f0e1f24b01c28a6dd2c4d4314d4d1ea96256
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD07 18304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000faca.bin
0098e3b420349d377d6bceef11e42690c02316489e2bf9756f4e75c16a59984f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACA 10552 bytes