Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e0c7f5b0597d435…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-06-19 00:06:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: d4fa35aeebc7d5408eef1b0b7c88a5c8 SHA-1: 8126eb4e45ea8ef1a95e94f607b4d7ff97938d98 SHA-256: 3e0c7f5b0597d435fb3215dd8e0b437c4abb5b9adad57de8d754446adcdb2122
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms and serve PDF files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple compromised upload links suggests a coordinated effort to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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 https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0jt2ucv04jg8hab303hg2aid6/gumonawiwozowokuza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015a2011de4548ffba6939cd154bf75a/safagetezelavewenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076173cc8990---97108287965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3hs84socuq2i570svi073vdgg/36951709351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075242eee777---siwipujepimizebutikob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/8381493114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/40641265250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/zafuzifug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dajuicebarus.com/uploads/files/zefeleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/559178c8ca14a153b07bf8448d87f12f/jafupuvubokiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d570e1aa1c4f8ca5298ac537189b66b3/volevimufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7f5ccdd713ef982b6d65120f9cf415a/21491789670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=rustom+full+movie+filmywapPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000c6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F3 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 17ce89d5691390fed8a97bdd380b140c88be0c91826a6f004e740c53f0946e1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8C0 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 1675d8ef25e0bd3a7263960747fdc3fca49a78bba3a8d5bd337246412390aab5
font_02_sfnt_off00010023.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10023 16164 bytes
SHA-256: ebd2804bff382343e08f6a42dc45f69f4e794c08b23908ae60ba78ededae74b1