Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e6c815395c103f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:10:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2d642d876e625c9fa05f53950a41db8a SHA-1: 0785146caad192130c2149d4e5c3e2a7d6f2e06a SHA-256: 3e6c815395c103f5886775453e5f7b01f0debbdc37245324431f2b9d68cb0d11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/67570706838.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://serviceservice.eu/userfiles/file/14648086298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a12d40a225---debamojexumazidafuwiwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/moxamujazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/babitumaxegekuzibob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba71b7163460456797194e0a19fb800/88913870156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mstpcov36pb3kvr22s49a04t2/gaweposidazizarixepomixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/35360853056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoret.it/userfiles/files/roveroxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2ac15970966c2717be1cec8875a2058/bazirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2354328ded07dd6151686baceaa7c514/rawababavejotumagutetotug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d8d9790d9747b6652a3adf209cdb49d/miroxisezizeniwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160802e701a4b7---mesot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355d42102bf---48687971856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gno20bj2qq30cc6nqcuk8hilq3/pususiwazizofuzewuviwali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086da13822c8---46497592929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/faxepiforaribi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a467fb9f78a---dedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e906a530f8---xokiwigoribebelomerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://d2dgroup.net/upload/files/rulekimunaripepid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livingcircles.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077865a3c134---pobiparukevebodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=artist+booking+form+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_off0000bd67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d579.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD579 17348 bytes
SHA-256: a391e591886b20d9304cb3f26b3f28b6e67ce158ebc8fe41fba142a1b5bff2ef
font_02_sfnt_off00010250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10250 10716 bytes
SHA-256: d79abf5f2b77bb56840ec90c6f4362b937b2e9d66345488139bfc507423447f2