Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3e273402c71d599…

MALICIOUS

PDF

188.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:05:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 9d2bdb31b97de81d926e5cfff29f17a3 SHA-1: 1b50f55fd0ef0f0f6fd5a41b44942c976219eae2 SHA-256: e3e273402c71d599bbad245710dcd6dccec7300f8713a85e225f55bf7aed97c4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting it's designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ebc5eee2c3---22084084671.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096542c43f42---vafivugopopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08f216e351---jasezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b318f0c774c---80696477077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99238d5efb654ec5fe341df46e63ae5f/74873539296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/42202966209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3a946e6f35---bitejimigexukumavuwesomof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44hv7i9rbuak005f0o08rb0otm/tuguxoxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608438456de69---32283186132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a297c577fde---74193936991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/42052851926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3fe66a3ebf7fd773696bd8dd2027ad/59405446862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pnagjaqv04h76j6krevncjisor/683552346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70530930c0---14801468678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02dbbb4f25559a91568fb8364ecda785/kiwuzuwekubibitudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f1b038a24769945c7b92584ad01b01/dugavolapoguvetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b218b0ad589---zatozuwasulejajupufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u08rpfmk10pn8slr2g4fr70fv4/zizezodefigosaguganab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c43a87dace629fa3aff8f52eca62318/74160389574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608736b9789c8---26463733690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/laxedufipofelure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/fasuvurujukozudikititopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/92815385816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11f415f5a1ee2bdfd8ff5ea8db1b6def/41560153515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/494d8ef2768e4efd20366c469e26759d/jofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=partnership+accounting+questions+and+answers+pdf+grade+11PDF 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_off000283c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x283C8 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 8bd63df5d16baf34e9c3dd2b6e00c6348e0fb23b329e790a3369f883ee005038
font_01_sfnt_off00029dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x29DAB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002b5bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B5BD 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 72ae0d7d3194c61634f1a399d401a9427e0bbf170e0cc3af4dc0d6a7fd8d9244

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