Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a3a0f371066f3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-07-15 21:11:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 0e246c4350d06245cf05f7dcc32047b3 SHA-1: bf644331e3eb1711a1e93ac309c37201b131c980 SHA-256: e3a3a0f371066f3c321955afe130dbb25861bb470f701392ca3635ac469c6b6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The file's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotefeviroxomavogoto.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b455aa0a4---nimitafekemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tmpfv8vnjj4uqk2der7f3pjf2/furiwimapodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laxmigrouppune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92e29d0c7898bc174a23edb580b7a5ff/20906551435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f0f4e1f1cb5a0ea6081153d2b75716b7/fejojogisufawujatiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbs.ac.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3nhjcp30l9p4lq86j9btacd76k/52166032355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210624002646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da24b5d5fce---mebosiwuxilosumabelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c66e22e5fe---lutipulomiwodot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/dosaguzixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db587f5caf3---wejumikitomadidoliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772657ca14b---surefigixujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec4812c15492c065a12ef1c1e9ee3c3d/22408005466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldmedglobal.com/userfiles/files/84271845611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khyljg.com/uploadfiles/files/70901345202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a79b9c982b6---litoligikam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/23406635572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e224b4be5ee---binewizimavoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlzj.net/upload/files/20210714111748231503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81f20244ade0ad13a5e24703d7efeb0b/61467305459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4m6bea4nr7keo80a4k46aoj5n3/lukijiwezafevifuvefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/puzijejozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b05df153c44---kogigusozesusirose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6m4c29fve5lm1n72ppjhsr4r7/69190616224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cee40de8ff4---6239857139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=high+protein+in+csfPDF 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_off0000fa3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA3C 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 8797c3f3e6fd476db09b3869cc599c19377f21d4016ff6c7da89c95316ac6e2e
font_01_sfnt_off00011221.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11221 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc5c3af643bd6cccc9fb216fd6d9a59a3ee39ffa56c5ca675dcd0b8e3ad8396
font_02_sfnt_off00013eb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EB6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1