Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e20e9097cfdd2fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 16:48:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f14b240bb9dc313be371e9c61a80bba5 SHA-1: 5b62ac7397df5bf803f8915db3308b12860f67ca SHA-256: 3e20e9097cfdd2fe29328d6e7f79a1eace52589f1e4843ceb7d544ebc73eb084
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a high ML classifier score further support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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 http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/jigidirepot.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160748e257ca63---63034050649.pdf
    • https://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e68c3bb887---femufumilipafugi.pdf
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1hor5mci9o6c02stq76tfvmcv4/72256246251.pdf
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87059798778.pdf
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeaf9eb56bd---navel.pdf
    • https://actorconseil.com/files/file/44236036776.pdf
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4919c6610c---bekomekilosabotus.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090257cc1f0a---devuvonofife.pdf
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/7780036199.pdf
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ebf209b11a---48287373674.pdf
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/add4d0upfqo1k2kc25vc445pk8/3096494091.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094aa4c48123---nurapudax.pdf
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxitazemanepem.pdf
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/duwebebotugejenev.pdf
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b549932a4b---95988868436.pdf
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qam9id2gp7blbtdvffl9hhjt1c/sibezugenonejafuli.pdf
    • http://mastervgtour.by/var/upload/file/87263988250.pdf
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d811a3e76fd03860d4cfc57779c4fffe/741195632.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=afk+arena+how+to+get+more+labyrinth+tokens
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e54f.bin
5ec84858eec8abebd50af2ee000bb0a8e289e5abc00f58091ccdcd0beb13496e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE54F 19308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011710.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11710 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012f27.bin
3f33d3ac00c816cbb15eff59bb231736cf47e47789015f32a4f5b1c4027adb4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F27 11076 bytes