Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3c4fd0ccab413cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-06-24 22:05:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dfa204e870bcc906c7b088b285a08958 SHA-1: 5fbea8ba8763e487493182cc1b382f6a64eca801 SHA-256: e3c4fd0ccab413cc9fa7eb021a9ec085d4ac6cfa4218cfd6c540a2fbc7ed4d6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+resueltos+de+circuitos+neumaticos PDF link annotation
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608826a7ce354---78904000135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8545d0fb8d49a7c58aa571f92fa1df6a/30152748657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c1e8364ceb---64576358130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://internationalmedia.com/userfiles/file/19199087924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8400d662655a156182030d20335b3fb6/zudevafifefusemif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3ff7ca7fc---67245098750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/451f1f18842ac8d397e342260b0fce8a/97452363452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janandpoos.com/clients/872640/File/fuvufejuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096124364ea2---givuketolipuduninuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apc-algercentre.dz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16553449356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/mekuzegulidebasod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/991aaff445e871489382e12a1b5f6219/gafisejodawewiwovibefozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosurfest.com/userfiles/files/38461333714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q66kvhmdvp6lhe3l0nlj8mksq9/daredojufakudapezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44d8e062888529a3f54af445178bcf3d/56957971039.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_off0000ff8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF8C 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 851aaf91a7136591974a79c6dbd7305a6b00951a62b87ba56705697a6d607448
font_01_sfnt_off000110da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110DA 13876 bytes
SHA-256: a430f439ebe0b9c9ac6f7d4a512d54345385ce0a4475c5b3e54f76f87162877f