Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e3d65baea8fdd1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 20:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: d85ddce1f08ea6cb455db47ad1d7adb8 SHA-1: ec9116ec09cac62642fa4372ac087cc13bcf81f0 SHA-256: 0e3d65baea8fdd1fcb05eb25680a64ddea1d546c4d4b890cf98d5dfc05d9c4b1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDF files. This structure suggests a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination, likely a phishing page or malware download. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, with the embedded URLs serving as the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9966

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098b4138b5ad---juxaligot.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bmhs1963.com/clients/7/72/7286fd37811b7a5dece6e69924e4d5ab/File/jakarowuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48568438775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62905765c17684ffeb31ef2620c8a96f/ratamakureniborozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pediatricpotentialsnj.com/PP/PPpng/files/joxuvidelanomizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billsky.ee/files/file/mugakunawid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deccanquest.com/konadnew/userfiles/file/75018924415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093d45da8ae9---wepurinesevawebiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac189753d2d---jafosulamunekabusawiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refour.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3eccd14724637bacca162d2b0e28f1a/lewowikuwududir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6e353ff2a---poxefemesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609753e2cd5d7---lewapidukapavagug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanosoft.mn/images/content/File/21582029100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessvaluationapp.com//fck_files/file/8781449976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/625681143bc97ab575030821b07ff982/1602831204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc82a61957---68847679110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f32e7a287596b3e3b09cc08b2bf8a58/42209651493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55a90518caec72dc777db6b9eeec7c90/98146335747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-treid.com/userfiles/files/dogezalowakowarikitij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab6ef81688b---52570956698.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://thietbiotovn.com/Images_upload/files/togazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=batman+under+the+red+hood+death+in+the+familyPDF 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_off0000f5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AA 17304 bytes
SHA-256: bac19acf9131dc0b42a31f96b069bef1b9cc0bfa650e708fa479a3753cc2d45f
font_01_sfnt_off000122db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122DB 10716 bytes
SHA-256: 5aa3e83e1e7956704907d4115c3beb44dc06f2e5f315e8281a6dc9248a88d3f1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B48 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1