Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e5aa34680ad21a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:57:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: c42f30509b165a5b9daaa2eddbd1a9e9 SHA-1: 875d2b0007b20b94a1dd77c4ab0bf38d03bfa874 SHA-256: 3e5aa34680ad21a6d0894e908c402754be32f7fa2468af89376082de048bd83e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites hosting further PDFs. This indicates a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c98b087076c333e56d12a356d646cbb1/8182423004.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/380bd78b9a8e2d94c4c4b61dfa554b70/72070984927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shopexpert.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/vapetiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/monevorelus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84544309835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://institut-arabe.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wapisozudonowived.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-grad.ru/fck_editor_files/files/7274384426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/xukeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83279017265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c72bad6bd4a78758aaad656bb00bf7ed/mamevapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/kirororawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5209fdbb2e---kerugaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vannordenvastgoed.nl/userfiles/file/jibej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-akparat.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/bogixelufizivafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a005a8dab72de160dbb4cfe7ca917b8a/bifenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/70269233154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2bb2cc95d42a741ab05c2b0764a23b5/tomemawekuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vavulewukeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a06b842d189---61847774452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a4f997576---tamaxitesizefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1959blackshirts.com/clients/866684/File/voripulenematasewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06097a34f4770f0914f08a0ed98c43b1/nofuvavevikezukuvaxedel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjst.com/upfile/file/17407097342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=gazetteer+of+maharashtra+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_off0000c3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3F2 19744 bytes
SHA-256: 698ed23a3bcb25a36c3c27a38a5b74eb38987303ca2b14095ad7aa272bb51055
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD7 10620 bytes
SHA-256: ee32ef570564cec3c5bc04f5c19e01426a162ef7e589ca0d195d30ae239a4dbc