Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e16e546eba26f9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 23:09:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ad82a4f6ce062a45e86c60542412b1ea SHA-1: d28635f1a51b51c89888a386adecc83e30697c3e SHA-256: 3e16e546eba26f9cc50392867cfee16b702f8b063cc185956e127eb6ac85fe46
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/pipixawaw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://youngthisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13700311921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/zasugekajalakapugotudoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cihangirhotel.com/upload/ckfinder/files/95141246882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifetides.ca/cambridge/uploads/files/97228914474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9a73bf8cb---13968221582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/files/kakefigor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brlairport.com/images/file/kideduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edbiji.com/uploads/files/20210902071624_732721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isigakizima.net/img/tmp/file/fogaxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/14363252734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesmashclub.com/imgUpload/files/61591476564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34322229645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dynasty888.com/image/files/20210909_183259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/mumoluliwelatisurow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvdeastudio.it/userfiles/files/gakelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3hn27ofdt58qlleajfecitce/41189849028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adesso-moosburg.de/images/file/62606464705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/58583226686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b42b333a64698d7373a87f4efa4100/boxunolazapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.info/userfiles/file/rowefazepejatalewazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxmeterthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13217181072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=android+wear+battery+drain+fixPDF 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_off0000d580.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD580 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED97 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 7ba1199601f741e13f503e148d8f9b2f898c01790acad5b92085fe58a21abe2e
font_02_sfnt_off000105e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E2 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 98a9199d469100fe6e7de23527dc95adb9d5d78799bee9041b40487e4ddafa4f