Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce3f2b96883e8ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 12:20:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 3b0f2d67a958edce4b07f91833508adb SHA-1: 6471fae934facf10f496e107626913ad6b898285 SHA-256: ce3f2b96883e8ffc2f77ac1dfd07db2c632c76fe89c08c53e729cd0a05a4b43f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of numerous URLs pointing to potentially malicious content suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://www.energetisch-therapeut-estie.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4c19c4740---5818473662.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fa8d679468---75948306176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae4c796a59d---49694652915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1661o67iff75j6d2q5n32pf0o4/memevitijogenakebudevase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084738326bb9---suwobixuvasepufojeribilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u0on8vn6cvb8lre07q6srn2315/63714038950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cnbn7el4d293gks1513ujaer63/liredobewijorexixesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846063d92ba---xetupavonukamupoludidolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/9190800407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d02601de1f152b4a7fa916b0cd932d1/80548496398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/21444621742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/32200434032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/34816934890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/7852949967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/savezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/92126353978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da0a0b48979---woxepawekuvapinavabuledun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5d445d3f2---85000327234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pp95cjnilq3ivhjqftp3keoh43/93934005504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ocbq2eah049mkc78kv8k0rq44q/numurubufonagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/xugobalafadorufododuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca0730b469---bagesifarodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/vobiwoketikabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370f9385d6e---dopesukal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abugfreemind.com/userfiles/file/16839863939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e20kg8rqrcr8n65sf2pnf6l2q7/40335894326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=uterine+abnormalities+pdfPDF 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_off0000feb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEB5 18116 bytes
SHA-256: cb2cc88dcc7c7e26f21bbd2067a55e881f6024c332dbdaa5b4e5e7e9f336c66b
font_01_sfnt_off00012e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014657.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14657 10804 bytes
SHA-256: ec3576a15eb2eeb9987b96e2697f0d13c3515bad0bf6a847b3fa1f89705fcdff