Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3950b26a0bcae5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-01 11:32:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b116d2fa6e7547531e92dac0cb51ec57 SHA-1: 421aab88b0148833f74c91ba66f429819ac66b7b SHA-256: e3950b26a0bcae5fc48adfd5db5d4bbbf9a0e3c38c629f7d3e3340548de3cc19
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb42hcmsp86t297lcadbeng4d/86543207349.pdf
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e0d6qiibmejqvm66h93tkrci0/birexojitomozuzijoki.pdf
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608598cf6d476---78785631060.pdf
    • http://bmsorganica.com/userfiles/file/selefagafuwegabowexexig.pdf
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s5f5ebv7ii2km6srqsph2shn45/290845450.pdf
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/vidaf.pdf
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085be1e6e64d---kejuwebisiv.pdf
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609826165af1a---90344234020.pdf
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/004202d92fb1ecca70cea4679f9445e0/lawonifi.pdf
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa0e05ea46---61742372305.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1079af2ed3cf6515eef6c308747df9b/72863073182.pdf
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904e4def5a6---mewapobitif.pdf
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pmp5g31t186kun8i69tifa3s36/3323269903.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988b27cf513---wunofufigusupuza.pdf
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084655572e02---julad.pdf
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95e49353e833b3253c87b985849831c/75728597934.pdf
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d386254ecff---87509356538.pdf
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c584506010c---72563903979.pdf
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/gabusofegimoj.pdf
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a56f917bc03cfc07b34268c96e59b497/95034647238.pdf
    • https://silga.ca/userfiles/file/82336383357.pdf
    • http://zhengfutz.com/v15/Upload/file/20216111844421562.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+last+of+us+2+soundtrack
    • 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_off0000fc35.bin
18bc14f43c4ab7e352ea0fd2510349951046355fc37ce00da26fe6017414bcdb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC35 17756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012a4d.bin
20baaaec1b0464e289432e458983efd97fb11d6fb3daa3957a3a56a07ece0380
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4D 10756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014328.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14328 16792 bytes