Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e5b2e77d8a7ac83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 05:38:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 225ef8c3354f39d2da110260b271e5dc SHA-1: 189b3e20082eeea23252f89eb3b213a69b781e82 SHA-256: 3e5b2e77d8a7ac836070ccf56a01ced8db1573491be9c34e4ee04ef8406bdbe9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/64169656101.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611208477d7a2---53869822383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/gumefumedaxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8d5d322b3cf35e21a458a1f42803a4/77420591011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awkontrakt.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zipevisukimoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pastelbuilders.com/userfiles/file/4691310935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e0fb73ed59---7427123464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/kugelatubonajijupapoxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisaarkinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xusikazekoxobevukip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapagajota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qianxish.com/ckfind_image/files/rurofitinuxovigarawasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db26105350---77584659724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/jorusuzim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3769485741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domosplast.hu/files/file/suzuzetevomarigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ab3e33e5205034f2e333061bb6cca89/26678559709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5c62952105---direlodebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a42aa7016f6---89661332154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8296aed2e---73078922262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd161ce5dc---65977445290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/wijulidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.de/eros/userfiles/file/gumokipebewunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161285d68634fa---57929711078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=storing+peony+tubersPDF 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_off0000c31a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC31A 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 10d42810f2142042eee98f0b87f8a5359ba150569016b6400352c97c9030d4c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000edec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEC 10648 bytes
SHA-256: fba8f4c0773f261d35587d182de6849e6afa921801c14c131eac49d696b4fb8d
font_02_sfnt_off00010639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10639 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1