Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3997193921b7d00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 22:26:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: d13e9bab92d5b7d605d815aeea2836ac SHA-1: 2760beabb83303150d336713a7627bededa0c0ce SHA-256: e3997193921b7d0026377c38bcc3ee6b800f2f73b8941dbe13d98de5154f2a3a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. ClamAV detected this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a document that ultimately leads them to external, untrusted content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9834

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=cool+emoticons+copy+and+paste PDF link annotation
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090906bbeb2f---kerov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68638954637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/konuvabulaxemupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/075ei7u24ef334m5mtglb5qr4b/bidizozolinepufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f14dcb39a96ee49a8fed55dc9bb01e4/47465448121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/882ebb52d4233616e98f013b42eb63e4/83246813718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/78734006637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemental-ia.com/userfiles/file/22104752531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzlpro.com/web/img/podborky/files/velugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b79e8105364---mofosozijemubegukeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/16265359975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738a07e42ed---81287479988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biurod9.pl/public/userfiles/file/samefepevobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609446f5df55d---vutoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c27c4acc829---80308897868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q0of31il9f3nb0p703chooshk2/pegokakesinakepubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9q8aasqk47e5eflm087cv2atk8/51573965997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shindah.com/images/ckeditor_img/files/nodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac40be03ab1---46592558230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/zitopugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a341ae5ff---13491401534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutek.eu/userfiles/file/nobevuxegiluziludenexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/xedoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/59073040030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858ee770206---zizomokodomi.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f61f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61F 1888 bytes
SHA-256: ea6fc89f0fe356b2e7eba811b22522bfab26d2ce779b6fe03ede2b77726cc158
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF4 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 92a3e96347d95e2fe16d9e74efbca3b025bd02bd65305c612d9a80ead0e97b97
font_02_sfnt_off0001179e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1179E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00012faf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAF 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_04_sfnt_off00014599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14599 28656 bytes
SHA-256: c1c6f490b9f8aacc795bc15c10df6563583552f3fcf919ed1af08d3575cad5ab