Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e336298ed5ed51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 12:54:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2476e97024b89a1401b521c48847287b SHA-1: 5d6866e7c5f8bb1f0700f2115cc0a8e5da0727b0 SHA-256: a3e336298ed5ed5196e3664575e29056be0a86fdae98c1d2fa68b08ffed68d09
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or redirection campaign. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further supports this, indicating the PDF is structured as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is the attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=market+microstructure+for+practitioners+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://valleypainclinic.org/userfiles/file/rumetepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961b4358b5a---67305852009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a4ad35bd3d9c696b3f394f75884d24d/dobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a9be8e5f0---paviwibefaziluzuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86ca7ebcaa---pegevowuwozimedutexijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fca8e0e2c6ad24779434d07408a04605/joxawana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1521c4fde9---65857981341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/tepabumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pjo039qnl2qoe5dmq8mqf35h85/kukudovupifiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/48638690563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/280040ab5eef5ef87459a2960ea64d96/jasapimazujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/tutezoriloxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f667564b8---64021207537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/74919970836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd8ec4ef2b2a7d30e5f41d59f377add0/xanuluxitabadiwevirogemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7974f3e91c---53669680304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaaglcftt5alesfkk7f.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31608ed0f5c238a31608889285a31562/83315173261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/meponufofujogebovovudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butchercurnow.com/img/shop//contents/zugugadukasok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7868781a97---66358824020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081209dca420---19538598430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a946ffe63ad---betanekej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608174b6a25e9---lataje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9ec06cf6095253f79883d98b04686cf/23128274226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c93eda8715---1735795866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5e029a461---zugezenatenopurelut.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_off0000eda5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA5 17324 bytes
SHA-256: f912877025aa64932ff394ccdcee8c289f385069337c8c777f3bc2a770571e82
font_01_sfnt_off00011aac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AAC 10920 bytes
SHA-256: fa9f1690abc63d72ec73aa3cc57c7317b0577874dd07821a161c8e7c2dd4b4ce
font_02_sfnt_off00013402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13402 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1