Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3e7ce1ce6007f87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.2 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:36:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 52110d1eeb38b76d0033868f6bf0ccc5 SHA-1: f48f858f3c8aca5a6085acc1a2c8596550f82a95 SHA-256: e3e7ce1ce6007f8728edcbb551c18acd8152a7ea652b118b8925e63a2d64f553
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, with numerous links pointing to PDF files. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, possibly for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab2e7166ad4---74633555798.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e54e8b7ba0f---50331631415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/737dca8d46b5e9aba519a73f6b13dbb1/63086039581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096a46598b53---48180238548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navigator-nsk.ru/userfiles/file/wigetomavedoluxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicoral.com/img/userfiles/files/jifegutovezuperebatumeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/jujoziwawukorena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://floral-design-lindgens.de/userfiles/file/lezimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/38367940771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danfilenemd.com/clients/67744/File/20718364597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dad5eb66d2763afc506fed0c124e0fae/seluwuxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/podojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/60223242666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fafokitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/10308933717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlikeflintlogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758718dcf5c---vovaxutaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/15254289560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad247f2ca4f---tazuzawibevivapilamuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/dapaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a85e7e6c07d---64164825018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95jim0iud5sieqcn1j6905ffg3/26353712461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/nobaripikawonajifevaxas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+is+renault+capturPDF 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_off00010dd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000125ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125ED 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 3947e14f2208db13378abc4d87cd9f3f0aee13e8eab2b4ea6b50b58bb1626879
font_02_sfnt_off00013e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E21 17108 bytes
SHA-256: 342f258e415b69a0bed526d6234de52bb99c84c356e2e2fce3616616aa0d3157

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