Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e3bee0981057599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 19:57:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8e8533e5add1f080e6dc6990254a009d SHA-1: 4ca7d5716cd827ecaa2b6d44dd6a58c9bebf95c3 SHA-256: 1e3bee09810575999a4965772b547d63127cb74ecb705ecc02158899885ac4d9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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 http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/nijavojomujarepuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://efuturesthai.com/uploads/file/kudorepabepapeneduguve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/6770841147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://et-auditing.com/userfiles/files/xixonibewuteteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752347b6e20---28655853686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mn-print.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65730682926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matsusushionline.com/uploads/files/55744293252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611679421b3d0---39472569524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec40984abe---60066966742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/293aa37i48hifv4l06hgih0lt1/vigotadatemapatovijuwufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/vikixixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/wamono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingenermarket.ru/userfiles/zovenubipugiwinem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medob.org/SITE/files/editor/file/29016164839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/90874971042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f90c37ccd2e---funed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversified-nj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b5c804ca22e457878ecf09bc849178f/10892631117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9011118ae8d3ec46284eb4d832081a07/11111632236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a2b0f390f1---9943660997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/4480547215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knuhpharm.kr/userfiles/file/20210731075712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a3521ca6845941c1b8f27ff8e6af062/35217737880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1621188200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=varies+directly+in+mathPDF 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_off0000e7dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7DD 16872 bytes
SHA-256: 64f80f266b22f2061d881f4cb5aec4724b40a3559ed401b735d8d2af5609fe9f
font_01_sfnt_off0001139e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1139E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB5 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 3fe709ae810371dcd6467b77ca7d828cfd85ac211686493694dca01e8d8f7c10