Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ee0eb68e166607b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 04:52:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: a10c47fbb9dbb51669591c65c3d9aea8 SHA-1: d7a081d0d220ac4689b8d49d7a0d9a4936eeb8b8 SHA-256: 3ee0eb68e166607b21d0a64183aecf7017231e6e98ce36674c1e02d561a221d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites. These links likely serve to redirect the user to malicious or phishing content, a common tactic for initial access via spearphishing attachments.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c93832b45b2---30926074544.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jojogopoxuxulenipukujum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tp6ak6fonaj7ld1osunt97dot7/vavile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73f5721aeb---86443541541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/68542402697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3aaae05d5affdd571597bd70d2c2466/gogukikifuwavaxuparave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab90533ab57---46968232115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93cehinjj3e05actj2mvoh4jui/xelin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contactconfiance.com/files/files/vasoruga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b88fe4cabf7---46635370005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/14679117617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/wisireseful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e5e0220d2a---68133458025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hemoroidklinigi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608307d8191eb---93017569411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e68ea20e5e03bfd876e1b7101f9857e/tijorumadenubuzakumabono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59072c9d36---firegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eisjja77iepfvf3i1g87lcjset/mafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08805460a7---nokikekusemimagaduga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3f5cbd195---sadawevubuwogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087113bceb87---wisanirudewezabusepos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a6b2bc4d0---78317539545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rve46be5ii3erps8ckpt14t6ch/womebanifeginatabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rbkcn4433r719t7ana530o5m01/59746586864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/19412104999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=router+vs+switch+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/40105755039.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_off0001042d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1042D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011c3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C3F 17668 bytes
SHA-256: ef482fe4cf57e4f4f9bc70136a14628633c947b5dbbdfaf29b0f0727897edfc6
font_02_sfnt_off00014ae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AE8 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 47298bbaf93bf62aea3b4f162fa521e11e08ceb519918c7917d3a8e8b43d7577