Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e336adc68f5abf9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-06-06 04:34:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b5ed6664bbd91f541c55028be2dbe9bf SHA-1: 3c0a2dbaaf96e99611162f05a1c1e5ea5d9024cf SHA-256: e336adc68f5abf9ac5d510451e0b803787023e12743e4750467da34703c8ea88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous external URIs and embedded links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating a tactic to leverage search engine optimization and compromised infrastructure for distribution.

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=formula+para+sacar+area+y+volumen+de+un+prisma+triangular PDF link annotation
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92f00d6c2fc00e126ba0ccd20a35033/bupimitetasud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodymindspiritconnection.org/clients/5/53/53f1eac0d8ee32431a47b4e1af774f29/File/8220690100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d243804065033f7042e7c940e0d5feec/masonejokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coreaad.com/DreamDataUpload/file/keretenonumitaline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08f1f11f4a98c5154c4c1a11ca96a8d9/sugozonetagavigakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f53c6ec5---sepixenamenifusogaxodir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ije97gs9jmjv4s80n1752q9e5/vexusaruvanazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/727534417afe2b98c50108648d2da9af/58727900902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160874c1872862---65716452336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ct7ph9vql68270ndomdjo9ap90/62285494297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63d406a3779a54c13c49c24cc12bae0e/biwigigebutejinabofetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/bubodufalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abbe3bb362dcb4f2cc88ef97880c09fa/27901712071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608721b559feb---18684436694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pechati-piter.ru/userfiles/file/24064882272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b834c3fabb96c57990d4084ea53fcfc3/wexizukebetezuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a859793445---6654433121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2EB 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 37f4837a7a2ce2b49b8076d2b1f88985e153c9aed01c0d0b4ac11d86cd66cd40
font_01_sfnt_off0000e539.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE539 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 6a7b88f21ff5aa104a11f14b9be4d7885151916947965869eff695e1ab7f7f42
font_02_sfnt_off000107f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176