Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3b7e63ea13c3da5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 23:09:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 05b1b174dbe7b5091151a68f63ff0868 SHA-1: 0cd5cd6ecfa4686e2c746025433bfdbbb6b90705 SHA-256: e3b7e63ea13c3da5950078beb8787b3b3512f7d1bbea65c2c262c590ee4871c7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious PDFs indicates a download lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://conhantaoankhanh.com/webroot/img/files/bubukiwatuso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4363f081a---34665202979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/90954496720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1792652262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htapigroup3.com/contents/files/rumizakuzimune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jocafoto.com/fotos/file/kaxev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choragwica.pl/userfiles/file/42084886837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelesherrinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gakom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acavacecio.it/userfiles/files/rebugigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xuvirinajewafelijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/wuzuzigovikuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyediajandekotletek.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/vorivawokanefodonafanafak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/nawizamozevutufatonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/34421370845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilyxrace.com/userfiles/files/99384554295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/4108005501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48779792205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portecitadelle.portecitadelle.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91331184918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafosaleservice.cz/images/fck_editor/file/xakukujakedamarata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329053acf45---22171957436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralatravelpath.com/uploads/file/fogatebotajowawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323c4da6746---vumukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612e988b2eb41---sutozubefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=fortnite+supported+devicesPDF 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_off0000cc69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC69 17536 bytes
SHA-256: b81b47b7813c7a0f2b2a1f848d19908cbb74972a992e6bb692fee13c7ebd5ce4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f992.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF992 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 398636ea36989407b9d4d3914b239135d6ea99f68aa90e6213f5a798462c5bb2
font_02_sfnt_off00011165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11165 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1