Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e3523a8b70c51a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:01:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 3050bd34145e3171594445aad8daea6b SHA-1: 22f933a4c9d5006f6a056a07f5b2f41334993aca SHA-256: 1e3523a8b70c51a5181626bdd34cdd59664cfcc8d762bc30c0e801e9f43c9a5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate it is designed to exploit users by directing them to potentially harmful URLs.

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://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37c4562469a8ba53da87ed5bdaed4d9f/47978261883.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0c8ab173b19ed99065b0a4f12aaa4cf/61111121396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elfuklid.cz/foto/Image/file/toravedimaxewigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/60133171125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mr-alian.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bowuvaxuvulez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/33985591813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608447272f02d---jijeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cbb5b8b5b9---wubuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee4e7cc67---41821889280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/prkq76n3rj03n9b84k5jqjs0n1/87170577413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/76987721659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4g3p5c9ep7a9unam9cf0k9tidl/konugelimifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarosi.hu/files/file/65385863245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c41c90e9e67---zijewizupegetuzode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083073e85614---jekidimexevemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f365ebe6fe0d7249961c3706d8d63c/zigewepekemudorupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/lozitalesigupotoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bq2atiectoclvptd1pi7umr4m/waladorubamusenove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gepabcg89esn15eq0btdk58cn/37656882342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sushixusa.com/userfiles/files/86793037094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0e491325---vugarugudojemuvomizefiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qlinairnv.be/userfiles/file/xurimuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/2895209638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mojahotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29233200081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=biotecnologia+antigua+y+moderna+pdfPDF 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_off0000b742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB742 16412 bytes
SHA-256: 7c88ac8da7e07563fcd0d8ebc793c7872af6051ac0331e9cf1483131420d6da9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE033 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f84a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF84A 11060 bytes
SHA-256: c2429a0e7792f06a601eac3e9a51d086c9d88f61a4f514ccff9505e48b479039