Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3ba0e9e6ac6c540…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-06-27 08:25:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 27c527de2b3048e956b1a29af5cc83f6 SHA-1: 13a180c61cda793d3887bfe74f31b9d8e3884b1f SHA-256: e3ba0e9e6ac6c540c7d40e3dd0eb5f8545cf2e8b037b83b93d81467c5b060022
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous links on potentially compromised sites indicates a broad distribution effort.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ea0dc1fec4---26177985168.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9shqblbrs0h85dqr9r0t1jqcbr/tobopuxeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a5062b3c1---gegixaxorawozeparuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.justgiveahand.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609958b28cfc1---28543129772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f2fa7370eb45def8f29213198717852/78629071914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/14794914509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novussiteyonetimi.com/uploads/file/28494975526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agenciaboom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2h9opln5ggss21b2oruna93cp5/56077097160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eae3703ecb0ef5ca70a4d92e11e50a50/17788978922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.herewardcarpets.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/onbq947rbiv7hctrgo288rd9jn/davupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallawallahighschool1968.org/clients/75819/File/beguxezozowuxitari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/tudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/61415495636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wedazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hmt7jibnf8k05aovk3mamdnkdr/vopamosajifav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb711e99cb---zovemubedivodara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.justgym.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4r0d049f3che63or2j1kle7njv/70397848490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5635e067ea---nitunarusaweroram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/9825641148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/9608507835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db72acf88d---gitedufikodosozolivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9a58139a5---pipixosijutumoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882def34130---wavut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamasteel.net/userfiles/file/zukedopexunijatezowifez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af4fdc14c99---60366597598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=the+best+fish+and+chipsPDF 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_off0000e159.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE159 17476 bytes
SHA-256: b1386eb64a02fd7d336157e1f3286c555a2d743ecc9b25f2590c2859759df343
font_01_sfnt_off00010f13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F13 10552 bytes
SHA-256: a0ae29ba6f9f7cdc645d7a65c9da5364df3480b1111785d05e84432fb3bbd23c
font_02_sfnt_off000126dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1