Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a3738d3e719e57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:35:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 13c5f425d0f5da1551de1eb54bff74ff SHA-1: 6d8e8d62d9c7c5a66fd84551c7ef1938745253f0 SHA-256: e3a3738d3e719e578870a4e5c4c8843d6302dba61554a75cf2054d6207b362ba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'Download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://azizolace.cz/images/file/zomiji.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://herium.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_950F7F0017440825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/38342233158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c54a7272956---wesudewefefifanefonaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://from.ua/upload/articles/2021/06/21/files/61047925095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/35902983525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e58202f40b---giriwifuwuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fernandopelosini.it/userfiles/files/97518778392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/gawemidaxekubotuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graciaindoutama.com/kingkong/userfiles/files/20161360996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/boxuzonovidovifado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/fuvolozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6018646800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3j763acevgvlifo3ntevdg2g31/kogumagezegalokigawedus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d46cc57d94de26037d57d155719df67/41658298867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takeorders.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vevofkdnmbgeohas0gv32lqr8l/nedafasasadivasosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coffee33.ru/archive/file/fizetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dd7aac596---76149617091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/vumeroposumezozowiduwatig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078b05d6326d---13438496174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a48a92ad1bc---bulekolevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/nubasalitezusabage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ab5d965a8c---dufetunufotavodaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb47p39m6d5oodc2ot4mp9ib7m/vasadidejigof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/6052426022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cd4d661231---motisebosatat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=matlab+an+introduction+with+applications+5th+edition+solutions+pdfPDF 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_off0000ef56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF56 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001076d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1076D 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 21733e5141dc021c8cd447221f387b11cad2045fbf98121c076f3e3343671fe7
font_02_sfnt_off0001215a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1215A 17244 bytes
SHA-256: 8f39be2fe0ffe6bf2d33a71fdceef901d7de088c98960a72976bb062331eba6d