Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e3ce75818c44cf1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-07-24 10:06:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2fbe1a3d0c7cb4ec2b86fa6e1253ef4f SHA-1: 6309a99ebb1d79e94aa7c6a927a10177983869c4 SHA-256: 9e3ce75818c44cf1bc92e2bd4d916f4291f5d1b480290e017eeb206522de5d68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the link farms indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 http://terminsk.by/pics/files/71133829848.pdf
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3be261b032---natubojijodaravakana.pdf
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/2758633744.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8b5f3cef90---gifoxox.pdf
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93a03cb2706442018b2151aa51f02289/44231277789.pdf
    • http://eprdel.cz/userfiles/file/napiguzasolegenebud.pdf
    • http://changju-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/75303901894.pdf
    • http://dragoniresorts.com/userfiles/28508087088.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a251bb604da---24936363855.pdf
    • https://lea-inc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f2507a5570c2b15704a3b8eef3be014/bazalomaziwofobe.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608729a31e312---vatatabakujedowimekalij.pdf
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0a9273639---71809187423.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abfd62ee6b4---vefewanavudokasenavipo.pdf
    • http://beepost.vn/upload/userfiles/files/11983314515.pdf
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bebc8a11cda8cd96b139b7a6704ac926/27226336648.pdf
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cdc3a7685---4857611971.pdf
    • https://greenline.bg/userfiles/file/minojagixob.pdf
    • https://bibliothequedesarts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29268064882.pdf
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bafc9807c0a2ec5cce0d62ba2440609/joxugije.pdf
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c79b1ef6485b5e8b86ee8b70de757e05/dubarolo.pdf
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfcae667415---wigikezogutonepa.pdf
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe7b322afbc596b648cd684e2db9a96/47545162732.pdf
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b28874699---7337314405.pdf
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/63865799783.pdf
    • https://vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dasekonoruno.pdf
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607807635f7e6---pagataxivirajunazapi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=curso+excel+udemy+mega
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe33.bin
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE33 10768 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000116e6.bin
ffcabe50083115cc2a7a2f25e5813ed2f5617019a4a4b675720b7a49579e409a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116E6 18240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000145bb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x145BB 16792 bytes