Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3383dc5214bced8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-23 15:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: efedceaf96f5adc8392ca0ba6679049f SHA-1: b04a58568ecb67c45e7253af14b88123cbdd11b7 SHA-256: e3383dc5214bced8921f936c4eea0d5f396a3b565050aef20ee930e80bfa432f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports the lure mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f13b762f7---91703189677.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sirindhorn.net/upload/File/jumuwamosisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanhaochemical.com/uploads/files/siwunedamafuliminusarijej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/71991636078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitchile.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bagavedigupadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaynhe.com/upload/files/12851560014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/98814575577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/tolakezuboxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaconexmec.vn/uploads/news_file/24023647219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909101407356629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jafra-com.at/userfiles/file/74098720037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterjobintl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wotovulujefefomuxaxekozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhsmelt.com/upload/files/venugejovotawidatigegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/fikilosewekonifab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/98314086280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614053a3d892f---93082811776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celesteandtorsten.wedding/images/file/luborurigurupubemisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prefinancovaniehypoteky.sk/res/file/zapus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/92446329437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebara.com.hk/ckfinder/Zenith/userfiles/files/kavikekamapututemaboleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/44083609800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/begesapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca690781693f45266e390ad804cdf78c/63486668893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=gb+chrome+apkPDF 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_off0000da97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA97 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AE 10400 bytes
SHA-256: 9fda02b86771bc701425d5ad4142c23c87bb2528700d0c1b0192d1cc196e83fa
font_02_sfnt_off000109fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109FD 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 7195dfb5e7302f6d5bdd97dfd5ad15b18ed8f41e211d18e21e2c98c984bdc5d1