Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3652e4a72c0e950…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:10:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3bc0329e82dadcf07c608da5d34a92f9 SHA-1: 8614536fa3c09caee1a0731d64ec11c5f5491e1b SHA-256: e3652e4a72c0e9504cb243b2843ef0ede235e7652c088a6b24b8e103a826180c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous embedded URLs were found, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The file's structure and the presence of many links indicate it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=taxonomia+de+bloom+en+la+era+digital+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160833bc90df88---buwutuzedovisuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reflexlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20140389e943a7073027db3aef4d9a2f/4885589289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/dugafevabasusopelefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shared401k.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a0002a7515d19daee1d472623319282/lepolitako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/4836424606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joelcsimonesq.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/megonovuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unioncentralreunion.com/clients/3/3a/3acd25563584ef55397927d4124196c4/File/likenulomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67f14fd16c360f089f188cf40dcacaa1/dupibuzovejibabuzumodanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanvoorst.info/uploaded/file/25493188587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/81131155043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/rakotiduzupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcolley.com/uploads/files/ledazujerob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pisangmanis.com/contents//files/57975154496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94456188925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palet-school.com/files/files/fovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aac34787c6---muvabaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/varunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8463ccd4c---3250784024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/juwitadajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memozabifaponodokopazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/20498527861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51053868630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mintowncoffee.net/uploads/images/files/potenazaxe.pdfIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off0001a7b8.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1A7B8 17488 bytes
SHA-256: 6b37ccb50423966933c983d171ed420e917ec2986cb56fb4c9cf6a946576256e
font_00_sfnt_off00015a74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A74 20440 bytes
SHA-256: 5ef37e8570ac22b06b5bebd4578d2d9a84a3700755fce0c5b9c9ba5689de26ad
font_01_sfnt_off00018fa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18FA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off0001c208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C208 10880 bytes
SHA-256: d0ea8299893a2b87124a5ba741f4c7752b0125539f815949fc9167cccf80d454