Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ea65ebf3af912d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 14:55:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: be17dc334609fd289f1e9a9c1e9e0195 SHA-1: 03eb92a6dbd478c26c175a05aa8e1b7cd791deeb SHA-256: 3ea65ebf3af912d7c98b1116fe2a321a85045d605831bbcb5326dace613eae59
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or suspicious domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links on disposable hosting and compromised CMS uploads reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1e0ea0f6ab799a00d21946decda8bfa/73538039178.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4jfosf2n5bituu6r4sqefk342u/bozowazodejugokarugumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5be387037d4ab504a4ef006007707f3/70864885506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d29bb1480c42b15db898225e0388df6/jibojatega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c315362008375b8862ea71080213b064/98116678718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qoq5hqhcr8vqapgjl31kpqjbq4/xanopiturubaniwoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/28941394854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/tawoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/46128625873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hiumrgo79dptidmmj06p9q5ibt/zalimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.com/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/pibozagimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oknoplus-omsk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfbeeb45016a214a64b4260ecc9b33c5/14655006746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31878535603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amenagementsoleil.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160808b07a304c---79199097941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7c128ab7d4c88d46d014255e0be3eb7/fawekuvotogifufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvif.fr/userfiles/file/77981460983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8348ddcd0---42471896907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fautographie.org/images/userfiles/files/13106765440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0e32f1c5---15211379380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stainless-faucet.com/uploads/htmlupload/files/lajun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monroehighbeachreunion.com/clients/8/88/88bd109b8fc96949fe6caf7698e88fda/File/wevajomitiruxaranuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cb41fbebfc7c80f92939ddc1b7ff506/mewivuluvezugogatikexapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609011b216001---xudun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/39277779335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4c10f1837a---duzadakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sts-logistika.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b9f2e13a471eef656c65d4b2e52b5b5/dexonufalatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=because+of+winn+dixie+book+trailerPDF 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_off0000fd19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001152b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1152B 16720 bytes
SHA-256: d3d665bee52f72c511352e8441760a8fdd3baf3a36d94b2e857d886ac948e400
font_02_sfnt_off00014066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14066 11044 bytes
SHA-256: a281ed8706e0545a50df38fb268e5a357f660d30672d5e83bdeec8dbfebf053d