Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3b29bce80be1771…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-05-10 07:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 793b6276d243f133106f011296ac63c0 SHA-1: bd65a08a86451aafa6d6f611d488e69cb0c75d40 SHA-256: e3b29bce80be17715b7cf6fd8930284484ed75a77a9cc5ecba9ce7cb88608c66
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file is detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, indicates it is disguised as an answer key, a common lure for phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=comparing+viruses+and+bacteria+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c1aee2bf109d45f91bf1c94f91ae384/fusuvufojavizijajetajute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2f511cdda---wejufidadiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd16ccccd7---76360589487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e5fdd19f9---64242369007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/jalut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8009c9416---rikuxonujopibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba3924335e---71901958704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16076b82aa43ad---22941111746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e89ad951246c970e9536fa0e6e7b1053/jinixabitemedivexeli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/nireduminam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61c6ce3136f1681856da3a5f5ff4b3ef/sarizepusuxurup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3fksj7aukop0187csf993ovqj/batizagozelugoded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetpoznaniyaonline.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e501d436565b0cbe3582bd6916c655ec/xovexisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/006a5ea863599525be3e703115d677a6/sapusovopepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE700 5816 bytes
SHA-256: 6d9d0d97edef9858e9eaf28c44aa8fd78f71d62ff03a23d560779067c0eb15cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000fab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB2 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 3970940f4ac563b77dd7a9eb2591bce642cb07fea0195416c82c7caff2e0f5c0