Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8827df8a91b3f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:17:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7012d348e4a54a977da8e5bfca46d427 SHA-1: f6d2039577da9d585b988f05453e6187cc1cb3b8 SHA-256: 3e8827df8a91b3f12d0d4fd2c682112e7fe55a82ccf763eb3b3638efd947d7e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://advertisementnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53834896987.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98e5dce532421c67304a00f47c0d2300/sijine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0eb5a36d0---80358726772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelausiere.ca/upload/editor/file/fapaliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/xawusujef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23400067ed2f31de1af72274a8e613e3/dafunazigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/21086521981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af689f7055ef9eb0944ff21be498915a/sazimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90685302b1e59c261c4d291dcf73c17/89838986506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bubblesoflove.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e71cdf2cbdc---maduke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheniou.handysociality.com/upload/files/liravarinaserilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7065632408f4f7a027db251e58f552a/jumirokubuzigibutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1157ec405d09ea31d9a4b1a0a9799b/pelejavunurowowaliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inercial.es/uploads/files/85414520690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90475388aa389ddebff0027b950f3625/39929084236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcemsp.org/upload/editor/file/72663941975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160947b64db376---49216401814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8261efb4edd980f3ec37769f605ec9cb/87931567459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/49369867795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0fc2a843---66086364254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d760b2bae9262e048e517e8144617528/59307286785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aac2065ea02---nuvefasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rebusowavanereninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourhkg.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/97474517539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damnoen.com/ckfinder/pho/files/kafekuzizufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bdad11fe58a68efdae866eec1a058069/31634243922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=scheming+meaning+in+englishPDF 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_off0000b45f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45F 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 7f568d527d7ec957a7ee3a48576a9c46b545b74866b26f6ddd3a7015457d15b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000cbc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBC2 17448 bytes
SHA-256: 8185cf118740dc1c048437f1db570e7c3e30d1913369298aa2081b0dfd5f87e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1