Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3a50e99962c1c91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-08-04 07:54:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 3600952d0bdcd0093338298d92b5faf5 SHA-1: 087e2ba79e21662de91fc841aec6c67569059de4 SHA-256: e3a50e99962c1c916376a5a22c1ea4e793445d2004bf1f06922bdadbf3718020
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linux+commands+cheat+sheet+reddit PDF link annotation
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc1541fd88---26309195616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/35867380376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085045ab695b---4948026236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkhigh-tech.com/d/files/61143091559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bfce8c255a---tiwat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujafokigejekabikajigiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bb23122ea6---tevexozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/49487806192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://108pizza.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/11145802570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160736a9743aa4---49034800435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georeno.ca/userfiles/files/27617803048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4dd618635---84375517534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penzionriverside.cz/files/file/garabibotorekowagimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/doxuvibilagotixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/zuxovasuvofuvenupelurile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphanaturehk.com/userfiles/file/dobewajanemomozomuziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deltagroup.bg/uploads/file/59947465028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobihungphu.com/media/ftp/file/padepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadcasthub.com/ci/userfiles/files/97097748180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrick-jardinage.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavovotemiximebuwemunuwaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoealora.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofetifapizepugutatezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawina-radom.pl/files/file/97090077515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kd-council.com/upfile/files/lidazizanupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607265a211fc0---sotidipopedenodopapazef.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
font_00_sfnt_off0000c59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC59A 10748 bytes
SHA-256: a26b238abee2242e40182fe9412f8f29e4531dd4c8cb16a66961f9adbd17161f
font_01_sfnt_off0000de23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE23 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f634.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF634 16312 bytes
SHA-256: 7d15b2d6d265aaca51dda18faee70a1b8fa9d95ed54cb111fb0895789092f9ae
font_03_sfnt_off00010c3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C3B 17504 bytes
SHA-256: 8eeb3e65a0b563991b58bea10781367fc0800698ce8f6768fcf6f1efe6b37299