Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e3391cc7dce0a99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:01:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 008153234514d081401a80c15074726f SHA-1: a8944416ddd1597588012262755938137afb1834 SHA-256: 2e3391cc7dce0a997347700d84dee941e435c1e7778215f0e7dadd028005cd56
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613970e7b1f9c---81183973641.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090307132269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/vipugam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jualumnitoronto.com/editor/uploadfiles/73338692124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/tinesidemusizijato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klientskazona.radeton.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55214046669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/reluzimufesivuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72887829193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agenbenangbandung.net/file/50576251328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hingliltd.com/userfiles/vexikitijusojanigiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.c-zentrix.com/ALCC/mail_attachments/multitenant-ws-01/1/1630967260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/bigadopaxudujep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8e02082d1---90860320716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/niwotakexetapidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bftt.marketsearching.com/upload/files/80715036808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-fryazino.ru/upload_picture/file/dazanojizeweruxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/59905411180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/135024058761321cd354b23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/silidinexerevewosekurigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc87fb426fc3d63ce7361f19c3a244a5/kotefufazisuguvusaxoril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ab1a9a.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/90078112213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://collectifff.be/imgdb/accueil/files/85193192701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_069BDB34D947E945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elementyzlaczne.pl/media/file/febisusugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+dark+knight+rises+free+movie+onlinePDF 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_off0000e114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE114 17548 bytes
SHA-256: ebcf67d5b3d647059293cfd2ea2c33420dc6c46a0f0c39f3b6a5957b4bf8f903
font_01_sfnt_off00010e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001269c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1269C 10920 bytes
SHA-256: a2223ee04b8d64b126b20e16c6189393dcb836f73121930c7b956bfff1dff856