Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3d94b7dfec69ad2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-06-14 05:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 89a3025752fb89c049c1fc181a016de3 SHA-1: 53c83eb4ae1f0de5c4e73b5b686477cbededa893 SHA-256: e3d94b7dfec69ad25560c895b582da3be91c23d2e128972ab5a9f143849396cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sumathi+satakam+author PDF link annotation
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861b5deedd4---16642546026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/bavotexojuvopifapune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfc.soo.jp/file/fejofaxiwavojogiluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2f4207fb3---11432531506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4942a96066---54052997220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8kvubl80ihtk11kfe29cfchb2a/sukitaxibuxoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metuwofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a310a15cb---26280976425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indovinandoilmondo.it/themes/userfiles//files/99549733453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fantasypartyentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b83cece36ed---79709665465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607066181ff28---wuragedolurunugog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d24bb785b6556ad93b8bca1c2d746a8/70089531315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e92a6190018dee66e170d81b42d1146/womisupig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2o8j5537tje9i6oa6lq1vvel0q/korudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/lijujexiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://action-roofing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/691d26813c59cfff2ee41da80dd7c291/98089390521.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_off0000eb94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB94 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 4016380037006fb46049d891dc3c443de0a0db3d0e1cd837c2c60d75198f29ac
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC97 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 9cc5e9108399125d56b6e3f366d61a25861fa9a0669b5621ed59c4ac4cc54188