Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e0e678e0a8ec356…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-26 06:11:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1d606e270e5cf84b8369c33202ad1a56 SHA-1: 1b432716d9c57849f1c95c2990eac5abe7a6c55d SHA-256: 3e0e678e0a8ec35617be54dc963b3cfc5b0aa6f335f8d1728f070b3843b38447
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. These links likely serve as a lure for phishing attacks or to download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a57f24646e---fanasok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/8893696240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/nabebarisapeburogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b662caeb9---dikoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b06a3595065---15197937933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95ttq48jdm7un8p7of557lvqg7/xefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba6701823db---19018807240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uihifqhnq0isi1v0lon9rrlkn0/sudebanulagoxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b80252c873e---70348576967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i24if92rg870tgpkj01pc2p42t/xopivosofuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ea2748f8a---ganusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78a0c74d08---94403932681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/mizawimilitujaxules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7368da6ed3bc97c9d62b969d012dcddc/nivawoxebazuvupufimami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hki7ta8qmoq0c6btvdc1k6bvp1/rofukenuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetranhtuongmamnon.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bt9vpq8og39tllap6fqvqg1rkt/bedeketiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a464591db25bbb07d7d19a2452cf68a/77569577627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjga4ugiqr2gbrhv8nkirncqe3/62175938944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldtimerclub-thueringerberg.at/images/file/jazedosuzuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35a30eef8207923835598a5fbc64fcde/jeropukolefizum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6104e5b43---jazewafisigisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3014b0bc2c7653071cb2f7c0994abc81/3879111981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc790760f3---19416561544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=conditional+sentences+with+if+clausesPDF link annotation
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de46ec0b705fb2d66b3ee59a8e89e34/kuwojifudifijigofoginak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ee14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE14 16836 bytes
SHA-256: d4d0b22615fd3909124339e627cb3ed4c6667e27dd9554b281fd924421261f0e
font_01_sfnt_off000119dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119DD 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 4028b04e7aef69e85b4b2f7f91ae6450e0645361ed5402a6e4b8ffd14438061c
font_02_sfnt_off0001326a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1326A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1