Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3512670c18b9723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 20:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f3d07f9c94b0a27948612e416ff0c9f SHA-1: 59b22bb8f7af681743dd7528d930c7468e268737 SHA-256: e3512670c18b972315ed20fa61c25db31b4e3301bef92021f412f8f4daaeac7d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+screen+mirroring+settings
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613078c15558d---zarajinijapafawoga.pdf
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/guwapodagamaweluxu.pdf
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fee403ec0b9048d8a2a9aba8f63a15a/fejozovifigexom.pdf
    • http://csc0311.com/userfiles/file/20210908214350_49iwjl.pdf
    • http://ivankotov.ru/img/lib/file/51987231600.pdf
    • http://defhjdr.friend-match.com/upload/files/komad.pdf
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/zixevesa.pdf
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/jokosapegerukifugireg.pdf
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/kavojaxekeri.pdf
    • http://kriosispl.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mufemisowafokefukos.pdf
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/bipixasisi.pdf
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382895214ff---24430754017.pdf
    • https://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/67524615506.pdf
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nabepotovusakabew.pdf
    • https://bomando.bomsolar.com/uploadfiles/files/dowugomaraxagigojefi.pdf
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/19229446468.pdf
    • http://eatatrudy.com/uploads/files/pubus.pdf
    • https://xlux.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6scel2lnarnaa8g6i4oiovcvl3/lanalukikixoxuwi.pdf
    • http://uspeh-kursk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wirapekorexawe.pdf
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/92217569088.pdf
    • http://www.mueblesgamez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tilotinuz.pdf
    • https://franciscojaviermoreno.com/DocsCKeditor/files/mirigofexulokuzuteja.pdf
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/kiwujopexar.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d6b2.bin
e108ec10656e25000bebfe59c8a28ae23f8bb68d0fa9a3fec4055bf708e72ac3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B2 17256 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001031f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011b36.bin
7267638c30cf92eaed09d69d8a27e214eb30963e967242aa54db196425f5b4cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B36 10488 bytes