Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e8bf85aa9c0fbf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 00:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ee149a2cb88fcb3fa91429872edf1d13 SHA-1: a34fd9acd65b498e5b7d9a26c45612b76cdc0f58 SHA-256: 3e8bf85aa9c0fbf70b99d16116a292d49fa8e2f476dce47a5c01ca4703b0abbd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it is used to distribute phishing content or further malware. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the links strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=que+es+pensamiento+lateral+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ab24b81652a50d95ae31c84fbd0b4d/nawugifipoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a88fe0425a584f9dcb62de5289ee62d/nateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/597f9da3c75b982e6cc5c9e0e49313a0/71506635016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gidorafavojulin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propiedades.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xapazowanexil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/035ae663923833611a2867a4ccbd8007/57698067390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmw-zona.ru/uploads/file/jofunekawobanalizikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8564278610---jewepelowusazisopulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62977848131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/buzekujudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k04nh96r2tm5u07qg46g3jo7q3/17235119199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeb7ca7ea7ndjbd276gpat62q1/zezolewulataku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e46dc8e46f---24006109054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.supremecaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8321028411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/zakivovawabina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansecyr.ca/pdf/file/vejobewulovifesoxel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/59874204558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dkph54ei2tdonm8tlrgoe7uc3/sizux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/70870970325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zaantraining.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f47b95b6223---83833387805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a514bd0e5b---welidita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visowebomovafotukinim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccforum.kr/uploads/file/1621224473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/20816589199.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ccee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCEE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e505.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE505 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 1baad4de929cc51f40a9a265eed5d780f4f9bc0d1d48360c6d1c5ed8bbee647b
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE04 17528 bytes
SHA-256: a8bf820417c4fb163df11ed67d738ee444ee2093fd132c82d589198094e78c86

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