Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e3a3238744d96db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 12:44:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 12cb6183c43cc2eaa07b1f13ec960adc SHA-1: f7fe9df90c0a7508e3aea32fc1f569dbd9826290 SHA-256: 0e3a3238744d96dbcfa3cd4faddc09b2b9faa63494a840ac6a537b37fcc9346d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external sites. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://phr4u.com/files/1903214393.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86d3a60042---xojawuzizuvawozod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/7039964224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/74002677233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/zesezogukotimatiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1715102504---11389066250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d9d645f407---44592216650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489b70e16127b48d8a4acb5968f89370/vevopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38823e82b27068f89093fb966f27857d/37358391367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a791e6469d7---lijimaranavetifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wchs67.com/clients/f/fd/fd50fd9748f3592dabdfdad26f378f15/File/74911247117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20003f563e045b4117fc5f478c003519/doguzuzimesebonelojafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/87338115193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202107020647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/60559029006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/1139751034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychologgia.pl/Upload/file/51811052563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f250398f5ac46fe77c4fcb8034ef309/85557183867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7f3d72385f---34939138768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proff-doors.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a462489526896a991db9bafec509103c/37755346241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d5e9cbb81---97664734074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brmxn.com/userfiles/file/20210520124410_mmw6j1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39mkj7m9bda47cqkdkdrst2vq0/zumatikolezotuwoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210503143358143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b35398ebf132368d0221cadcf5ae9617/52484958481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=names+starting+with+nPDF 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_off0000eac6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC6 17104 bytes
SHA-256: d1e190378b7e280db271f1c161cf09cfa10b387670cfc1a28b6a721c9839d5f2
font_01_sfnt_off000116b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B8 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 8e021d032ddd80161068f09dddd1741ca091e6548b9b7909a1d345e62d223b27
font_02_sfnt_off00012e4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1