Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ea8be7cde72a429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ba026d15537305b562d81609c98723f5 SHA-1: 17661992e77d983197c97e8ccb3cdfd9a02da41b SHA-256: 3ea8be7cde72a429b2965fb5366a527b1250e6ece7a6b676c7b6873179b0f490
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages, aiming to trick users into downloading malware or revealing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c9bf7722a6---furevowevanozowixijapebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mebel-moscow.com/content/xuploadimages/file/82414518389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikquartz.com/upload/editor/file/1630999323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://testgit.begurholidays.com/uploads/userfiles/files/pawogajibaxazovirof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanmorales.es/userfiles/files/kisawasunefixewogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julietlandau.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/69519367737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142420d3e3bc---susutebifibidonimusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanchanaspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67001474187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/40900231987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bytip.net/filespath/files/20210912152556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/bazumeduledavuninag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medi-sen.com/files/files/35218914139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/nulokefedugeware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.piramideidiomas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nelutitunelisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/kepuvodusavatufitikin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/ladibosajewokizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann.pl/userfiles/file/gupabilagisuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/duratodisimolarino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evaemlak.com/userfiles/file///zununodopafagividu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rklatex.com/userfiles/file/23241212940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/87481377120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5ab1cd179---56817036161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhosting4.net/media/file/5364053304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erh-hu.com/userfiles/file/95486960796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+up+a+moving+wallpaper+on+iphonePDF 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_off0000deaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6C6 10940 bytes
SHA-256: be67abab395fa7e9e8d6ab3bf1056fbb96eb322e13775137d910722d4561431f
font_02_sfnt_off00010ff8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FF8 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 19c20101d2c79a37482833efa4f925383cacbf00d52d0f0dd7d86c8f6d93f839

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