Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8bb85c67c16d51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.0 KB Created: 2021-07-03 04:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 026c80bdea1eb83e3e74f8ab3ea67c94 SHA-1: 4d677c3abb14ac79c48d93fcddcbbbe3840d3e41 SHA-256: 3e8bb85c67c16d510dc4ffd45d1aa3c3c8b25c56f144975882324907686223a7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=meer+anees+books+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b276be8a3---52852620595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522093332184707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/52255284224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608240bb929c9---12588554736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edf72e32c41adde69ee4b85bc86f07bb/xapumupefatamojilimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/16946191332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4d8c725be7---vupupobutaledexowosijev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2f7c4949a---12140896808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokozentrale.de/idata/tuweroxufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c91655107b---jiwuwosajaveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bahattinburyan.com/userfiles/file/59006492080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/lejuboziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5af10d4eb7---fegonavil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb7e68e80ba---kaloloperosowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogumuwatemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/31632402403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/95790333829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/lisefuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0579ef3be0---67594329840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/rezepofaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0i8dforkkgijj5b1brtepr21g5/vefususeverepegedotif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6af0a3090---61505756155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/wekeborimawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/93779907528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010df8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF8 20068 bytes
SHA-256: 18882085959dcac88940a8bf1cd14e28bc64ce71e8b49f7697fcf7327f4dd59d
font_01_sfnt_off00012f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F2A 18040 bytes
SHA-256: ada4338975702ee57a125c4aa4e9c08f8df9553bac4e60b04a8e7723c6a6f99e
font_02_sfnt_off00015de5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000175fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x175FC 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 386f48de9a6eabf49062f4e35668e2cbc595899fe96c8f4c82f412c1cceb7b86