Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3ed599c508df8d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:09:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1ca0e3ba205319de37ec6473c3ca1e9b SHA-1: f6008a1e44c824a21bc80d62029a3a8e6e3a182f SHA-256: b3ed599c508df8d70b96b8e045be0e28f7690e80f3ab2fcf937a9e25515b7aee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites acting as hosting for the PDF itself. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a link farm designed to lure users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9892

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://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4vb51i21s16md8g7aeju60u3g/1853862584.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608351a0b83cc---39632192305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/66858374134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/899ff9461d393057e2e6f7627b1e5b82/75194798001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///36055299867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb06b02caf---pebolunuzusimevotaxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/wubapumesarisur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3976103010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giprozdraw.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16672142781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/tagazadegunegebevoxijoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67adb39f3780ca9b95310803b56c0616/89280065657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lmbri.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/pafinoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fec253109e---30127010816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomisszio.hu/tmp/xafuwojuzufavawojus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportcity.bg/webroot/img/content/files/divawomofezelikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1bd006a9b2---xidasujifinexadedebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/846fc8face818c26a8a60b6bd5fe0ec9/22293017807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86c10a97fa826138f35a15c67567b958/1376600362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a82eec3e982a329ac8b3b81291f898a/ronedibutiwis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaizenlife.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78865723438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/74418018514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab46ced38c0---kuzerujazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/xulizami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valve-toho.com/userfiles/file/ropemamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jh98d1vrgodu56bs7vft6p2ns0/tidimesirivukevozalobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6282b6b489fae9017137599e4b8661ac/medifebotifonewosokoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=i+hope+you+are+feeling+better+quotesPDF 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_off0001374e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1374E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00014f60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F60 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 75b889164a792ac3b012c4d82ad7755566e5411832d668f0abff0ac40c64dd78
font_02_sfnt_off00017e85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17E85 11088 bytes
SHA-256: ef9420b91bf67c8a01ebccd7f8d024c8bce6ddf4bae2da1a1fc83f450ae711f0