Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3016982cb8eac0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-06-08 18:36:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 70ae9dde43e8c13f142f776101446750 SHA-1: aa1cc715348feea8da14a58829b435013f831330 SHA-256: e3016982cb8eac0dcb19bdbad6a42ea6b1d8fe39be8d5b7df32b105eee2ec703
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that lead to compromised websites, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document's content is minimal and appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, further suggesting it's designed to mask its true purpose.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=future+tenses+exercise+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a19fdddb359af807d8ec09a03d2a7eee/22781848797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bfa11479---kujafixubibatanubulataweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaeram.com/userData/board/file/51968745808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ace6c05198---48769329129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160815862ef7cb---50141418020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j90r9m34g7nbvkhc5ggomg5a21/80025504966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4aa484b458f1ac0aa3cc12af38cddf0/22750276136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4b42236e7---midivoxurusaxijewagikuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/62533376565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelcabrera.com/FCKfiles/file/90665216402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1fda76c88---97933087938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160728321c515b---78309185292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f3677355e3---58750282438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83a0eec11c86a5321f23da9fa60db4b8/wevoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dqnfrphvqnqnc2m163qnhpfc7/lanitazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d100.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD100 4928 bytes
SHA-256: a2d7a7cc728f533fdfaf32dce03d6dde4737b0f1ff3c27dcd92ad57cde74e614
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E3 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 70ffc599166b25c18c7e6e4b63a9955a2b3f4cdbfd59181bebe35b460d120f95