Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3c1ceea1f9cf6d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:58:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f05c24eec34b963a9d913048db5ea1b7 SHA-1: e06d32df991a71338a357cc28e93ba7d7be5efb6 SHA-256: f3c1ceea1f9cf6d09efba8565d455ded4ff3b43ad667e5daad827c750e6f43cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to external, potentially compromised, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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=top+pdf+submission+sites PDF link annotation
    • https://hostessima.pl/userfiles/file/gofinixajimunevutuveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caa4770c9c---vetivarenimigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dawahcity.com/userfiles/file/22648248387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psfund.org/public/uploads/files/cms_files/71913392370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fizjolech.pl/userfiles/file/68474302896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210606020134100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grappin-annat-como.com/userfiles/grappin-annat-como.com/file/73299736752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hamburgeriaagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9opm84ernto6t12tdb9bu6hbvs/41493550682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hui4uo87g4lbr8tdhao3g88385/81921694708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfqqg4ul7r3q72c65r24pvn437/17307021401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7c4dc1d121e672e47b9126b8f0b0b23/40451855023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matskaren.se/anvandarbilder/203/files/tapezopenapelisuxuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drjoecarver.com/clients/49355/File/56817419712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi2.com/contents//files/kavarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasanmasat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gibatuledubeledofigazasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/tadelosax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210520014526156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/megelazujirigepobusimate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubest.ru/images/file/76493139729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguoixunghekiev.vn/userfiles/file/witolojibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodatkireklamowe.pl/web/uploads/files/75045240028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/77477999668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210623001759103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/dujaxowuvagef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c889ccd22---safevalizogujurazegil.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_off0000eb61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10373 16596 bytes
SHA-256: cd73845fe537c9eb9ae94d4a4b404147b992dbfb5e79ed5d0d08e47f84b3ed5d
font_02_sfnt_off00012e38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E38 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 46cd27df6bc48ebc6d689039b5a43e21c6bfe6254687d508b8a097a4bae2447b