Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3bd3284aa70322b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 22:08:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: d40e7e8652dd980b1e381df4bfe5371c SHA-1: 19d60818fd23615cefd57270f8cb8d5f733095ba SHA-256: e3bd3284aa70322b0474c729db8ec8a7224a16116ca978cc85a3b56f74053c16
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination or track user clicks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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 http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944b25137d5---savesakuzukega.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwlanham.com/uploads/files/9978235215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3bad2750163c32de92e1f7e3a2c04c/70912223282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klhl.com/userfiles/file/pimuzapusewowodibitaxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160becb0666e68---1277271223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terravistahometeam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16ec8077689e17ff312b59789778919e/88077827436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec5245cba82---nejegexabonexuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758714807b1---sasasuwesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soba05.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af39251fc74eae4707cab709b0572a74/93931848540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/32942797885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/45163461709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fl-forever.com/upfiles/editor/files/dakebenumori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falconfam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88448779571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/571cb5fb462df357027fdc4bf298c176/10258412763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xo-sound.ru/userfiles/file/damejuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thumpamonpally.com/userfiles/file/mesodisuwugirokeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/losetimadazudewotekama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbriz.ru/userfiles/file/xunebikuguwepirinabudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611778581f52b---dasefenudimegunumosuzofut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/9624121143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrdak.cc/uploadfile/files/dejezilapomedovekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=walgreens+cool+mist+humidifier+owner%27s+manualPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a1afe6024---92987056926.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fe5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE5 18616 bytes
SHA-256: 64adbc6e30727dcd6a820b734f5c5e85bb35d924d37e610bffdc85645b1c7401
font_02_sfnt_off00014081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14081 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 45fe505bfeab7d2337b32960c9b3d034e3cbb4e9f4dc1d9f02bb40d836417a2d