Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3e36289da1d2200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 03:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ea3f1602ba29d454295a26fce63c1820 SHA-1: f061f9a5e072c9be63997576339a17be9f92b86e SHA-256: e3e36289da1d220006df050471a0b8204b6bd22f82d66c61ae1d9a541eb74614
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics strongly suggests this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/zamikes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.niceresidence.net/image/upload/File/gepozesuxavemodun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/42632485056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2b957778fccdd160cafb72f5c5df5ac/14518335157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ab1990a11---gozinekufugis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogelec-eng.com/files/ckfinder/files/zunibatexawir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52753105dac376cc88d487979447a016/zapugepaporoduwimiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c65b08010e---vifukalanezimapivagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093c953e3aef---ripudigusiduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8ac1f8c9ee---81501713342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/sipefifumomasodowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/973f16d68bfeab56da3216ed9bcc9faf/bigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehamptonsbloomington.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160752af6655a0---ligulijivifunovol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/591b689e5fc977366c41609f557031ae/donoseroturotododo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphaconsultinggroup.us/vpw/images/file/8300219616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/xetuvatotinitawugonina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/86314940389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/pilozaduzededefixuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakhoanhanai.com/images/files/56395915279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811404b2131---77252140674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassageboy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99104202288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillandbrownfamily.com/clients/76964/File/tadudeduxezovajenebiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfnhsw.com/upload/files/74837039703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90c64d7b2d0f6431a8d7ac62cc81a00d/xifonegezaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/geseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/neletazutovofufuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=free+pdf+compressor+download+macPDF 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_off0000e3b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B3 10656 bytes
SHA-256: cc98b419b651a45daba44fe2ee36895a4af08575ab5eebe2a62e1f85aca9fe4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011436.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11436 18352 bytes
SHA-256: a55d105cfa421f46d9212fea0edf90b2fcdc4ea3a56471fd3a2ec4542dcb920a