Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3b0ceee753fab98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-21 23:19:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 7c89d92e335f7cb4536d4f04e0c37464 SHA-1: 1b5678dc15c1bc0ef0fdf064ea75414fe685e4b1 SHA-256: e3b0ceee753fab98424abe5068b0cdac70ac7c6fe3c7b1419ce65659635c4eb3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e563ac27f---gekububoxefanufujasupes.pdf, are likely intended to host further malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://chatham-ebenezer.ckdomain.com/uploads/userfiles/files/10468364505.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/pivikabirudixitanapumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasset.bg/userfiles/file/tusuxewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doluhosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/lukidezajiwekorugudisof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137e563ac27f---gekububoxefanufujasupes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/kilowexopuwujevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gccpay.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83da7088766b3e60ec98a7d580fa109/fuzopenimugumijajoxijaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaseguroseprevidencia.com/fotosempresa/files/wejeralofekavon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139132981697---22100030061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunphu.com/userfiles/file/81689064998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/6835584507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/33036020527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sinarwaja.com/account/files/nenijimuwaruwudizufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdkuysuujk.handysociality.com/upload/files/nenaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/povuvejekosavaziba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbhshipyard.com/userfiles/file/26763837830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifecareproduct.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30411130391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santehnika34.ru/images/file/10597928020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinshifm.com/userfiles/file/libupifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/dimozusewapalewasexoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntra.pl/userfiles/file/24899797454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szigmetal.hu/editor_up/19409694537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=papas+hot+dogeriaPDF 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_off0000c5a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDB9 17128 bytes
SHA-256: a4f2f71e953cafe77c73e0b44f9eb98549536fe0971c1161780bfef1aedab7c6
font_02_sfnt_off00010a86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A86 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 0c8038461ecfbd4418a47d06fd6a8632a654b5a1b2a5c29670f303fdff7d01e6