Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3c8109a29f116a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:35:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 717bc9057b500d679d3f63166e5aa7e0 SHA-1: 0edbd15be3ff37c62f289e4a453749ee978d2056 SHA-256: e3c8109a29f116a9c291a5bbed4a895baff479e546236a0d0e37a63d1b0d7fc3
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, specifically as a phishing or trojan distribution vehicle. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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=manual+de+urologia+pediatrica+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf2f42d8a8d---fixidujutepab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://security-m.jp/tool/images/file/vusevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krevue.cz/UserFiles/File/16660052082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87368953512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/99823803710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba25e25ed6c32c0d9b6cffddff40dec/42909553267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/koralutudumipewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airbays.com/userfiles/file/18084253556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/wenirijivakoludenafogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cab0ab48752---bomoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razvozka24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb28beaebc196b7d844de21615d5e41/zajinojonugusugurawujumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c30d239d7fc55910d5dd87117d462c31/wadewone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8532340732---buwivajakubesonisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/10769063310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dollreunion2020.com/clients/4/43/4392dc7a9e9236654a628da0af121bbb/File/jokijemitovapuxokeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/derefav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/dofamixilino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f2e9ca9a03---bemovejabemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocariola.com/userfiles/files/89946918885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.peeryhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/381afc1d7bbe132322aabaa9bac7bcd2/77215901508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chengzechem.com/upload/files/64793408661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/97376776368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/98421017771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba93795adf---fevixomibamalebotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mftk481ov4bcd5dd1bvlg64q4m/megusujimiwezoluk.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_off0000d6f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6F1 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 1d7ee91eda01502ea57fe563aa02336335f3d10f33e3b2885b7977381aa847dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001077d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1077D 18740 bytes
SHA-256: 737195cca20b55f8b95a97a93377207877fb4eeecb03a1b6b9f398aa6834a62d