Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3e10fd741f95eac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 18:57:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b0e690d7b9628ca9c70272027c7c86de SHA-1: 344cb103a00614c28a9532fa528d3f790999c383 SHA-256: e3e10fd741f95eacdca2c4916d75c903489f0c0dd4db9c57f4bc0aae3a0988fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The primary purpose seems to be directing users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://brnc85.com/clients/878796/File/dulasede.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c97e2b2593---77322927651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.misshandicap.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f829bc36a---nosamezuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b596cdc437b---48676250673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/98089755303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087495bd4d1a---45181379657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794afb9d6ae---fofamebatuxofelobigulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5e4fecb55f---92741613054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/rudemajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wahibluedevils76.com/clients/5/55/55d7338a7abcce318bc847d7f34994f5/File/fegupodivoboxuzigeliwewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48d15dd28ea20cb1c42717fc1cc3c46e/32841130996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/votatevawowujuwipuxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atol-res.pl/uploads/file/ronabozivumokip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akekaluck.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89516740125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/no277b2ap1ui2g2mgraidb3is0/pufamuluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smithmurdock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0a8b25296f---58411293891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c50e230da70---toruz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/dexupafipuralusosidetobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710f62850b4---lorixoxebinategoxupafipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://resulgame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/48060351727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipcisec.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jorowatupojomavetujeseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e25f1e5bd---30857195604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/vumalewuberu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/77237779072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ah4nojc0l165cgh61b4p2heq61/felagilemexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=episodes+of+double+visionPDF 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_off0000f68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ea2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EA2 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 085a8b08e1f18c23d9d3081184168461eebbe73d0ed42affa3c5b44055a1835f
font_02_sfnt_off00012615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12615 16908 bytes
SHA-256: 8e78ab3f682e143999b6f97d4c5d8f9b2ab41e4e36c1b8403cb9e209a1f4edd8