Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3d044d168287c3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:01:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c3ec1738f3a25ee7b92d61f733a7411e SHA-1: a5d6e2790f2977cc98c1abadc39cab29779ffe17 SHA-256: e3d044d168287c3e76646ddd48cc951992b8cb2a88471e899d4b152faa6c8ec5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this phishing or malware distribution intent. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d945401f363ab5f9074df09609534dd0/wowirupugiparus.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://siamintertrade.com/file_media/file_image/file/95850294617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukutinewefesevatabiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///59228375714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duocvinhkim.com/userfiles/file/rurawizanakujowonut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138fbd355d2a---65953254577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxhsbl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913_013730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://narellesastro.com/userfiles/files/rerugimotagodegelegen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d3f23e7c0---zatomeregeburavewodofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.com/userfiles/file/10293822979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/jifunubitomerunaxogazuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/feberipuxaxumasifoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210906_160648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipifan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngusacdon.com/upload/files/74567413752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/91028215003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glearningsolutions.com/userfiles/files/wujuxoferazelesaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matricula.arendic.cl/files/8702442789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcm-invoice.vn/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/vewawevusaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/78236766066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/suzut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bda.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifemikixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dijuwalixadewasekelonitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/76655762246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62116274557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/67960939049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveworldtogether.com/datas/files/vofadelozexexudenis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=90+day+fianc%C3%A9+full+episodes+freePDF 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_off0000fc36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001144d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1144D 11076 bytes
SHA-256: c433a1239be58c60034bc606bcbb979d1999b6b1502616332aad4c9f955d1bee
font_02_sfnt_off00012de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DE1 18656 bytes
SHA-256: bfaf0ac79486555c89c25dd3521f99bf50823b8f62cd1ddc01e5b8008b3096e8