Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3e9d1d4f527add0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 18:20:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: dabf12ed18973cf4ff18d6ddbe94b6d0 SHA-1: 43bd4156419a949e768e791f5ac26f87e37cc812 SHA-256: b3e9d1d4f527add097753048e2ee2f0a2aa4462f9e71b5540a54c14e9f308d3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055 Process Injection

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting it's used to distribute further malware or redirect to phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://fdscience.com/UPFILE/userfiles/files/5107762246.pdf
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f95bda8a35---susojupuneterajag.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e09b4f04ca1d6df9fdb979e9fa10cb1/59132283539.pdf
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72620eae7e81b47493a1d0820c44de53/fitamijitalinowejuvoral.pdf
    • https://atphp.ch/userfiles/file/40455923014.pdf
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/deb6de63496918df43d49a5a1ac562af/wefekalodizoru.pdf
    • https://fong-cai.com/upload/files/lupari.pdf
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1453ce14428b2a784581e7014b80ece6/62608289315.pdf
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkar5f9nh3v2ksp980g6uvq3g1/jugimulijawofup.pdf
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/76470685653.pdf
    • https://hohsingfiber.com/ufiles/files/51572086607.pdf
    • http://savitapiti.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14912978388.pdf
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/noraxalubavuzipef.pdf
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f0fdea14393518010c0bc7671e6105/60245675518.pdf
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7415e4423f---labida.pdf
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48963072b0740c1a9ae50c5bf46ffcb1/37429122089.pdf
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/238bf7aea619abe1a035bec1d3b40880/68450086419.pdf
    • http://fresh-j.info/images/uploadedimages/file/boxenudo.pdf
    • https://www.djluk.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53v4k1vitnvd6618684svhmiec/jizenuxenifopiz.pdf
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/serakivosuwidadeveziv.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45991dee5218ed9e091f057f4c27daa6/tukesabe.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ff6144c5e---83398164658.pdf
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/44584880264.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=super%27s+5+stages+of+career+development
    • 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_off0000eed1.bin
43a7a0623a7d9c820b33060997b1b75141498dd7e4f844c75aa89af5424c6f17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEED1 16560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000119c9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119C9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000131e0.bin
3f4b1fd61bc4929ffeef4785de5024a051ac48905ada98db62f19bba7245ec9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E0 11280 bytes