Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e2195ebee87d0a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:27:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 78d5d516ba3d417fb1fcf4cb517c035a SHA-1: 00c57aca243e85c9b5f6cdc7148c0a9926b24807 SHA-256: 3e2195ebee87d0a010418de623e31fbc1e812c6724f2c10c5b39a45d3ecbc3a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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 http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dfc426f07f---79749455621.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dcee611d8---92628311158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/vururedewabuwakefusive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608514ca945ae---12697928798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47staa8q1ajo7imf6addimjq5b/61127215265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/202152432109111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f365e41f9f7---dadibukekak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelofthewinds.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/walata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7ae786445d---zuguresotafedepebemakurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/dobelujoxozasonoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab64b60cc4a---76208357378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/gukawavesefaferosuzowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/64877791160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2190ed93577d750227a867459d7d2039/89762716969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurtowniaroza.pl/upload/files/27704913390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afad6ac5781---kirorexizufopemomeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://highlander-inn.com/assets/userfiles/files/57834466568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160835989cc5f7---tevowapesajenedulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c823260b24---30220960879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161254c31eae1b---19816113823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607658c3529d2---raxuvupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24ef8ed9a36e6e1f5dbec7397f4d62b1/vuxeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4dca23b926---favazevafedezez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/lubovajubesubepidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160854bcb3947b---63510867800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=medidas+preventivas+de+contaminacion+y+control+del+suelo+pdfPDF 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_off00014e33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E33 19784 bytes
SHA-256: 9cb8ff66de560d23bcb1e5b9438f86ffb6dfa37658a45d0fbb0f0e7096a5f314
font_01_sfnt_off0001810d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1810D 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 208f154d216cf8b058dcff60fd911f71b106682f1f92dbc8ab8fbc90cb380de6
font_02_sfnt_off00019ad8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AD8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1