Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3ed379d925ea36b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:51:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 560735fb36158e4b4d7c9b856a8c9cba SHA-1: 2e07175e07f8a29d22caa1da08633c078341d075 SHA-256: e3ed379d925ea36bd52fd7c0547e56fcc6733124781b4e36d915d390fe2ff097
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic firings indicate that this PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, masquerading as search results for educational materials. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely serving as a dropper or redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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 https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nelson+grade+12+biology+textbook+pdf+download+free PDF link annotation
    • https://www.stamfordtaxis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9chv1up9uq1npkaev6ocedg46m/46361861823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5a242d7063798a42ade71a335c7b9bf/zusoruvonera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/07/file/33262368160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3ad71798b1---suzowixewefemusok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/69390140904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alianzatours.com/imagenes/file/84616512237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82508172805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/53982163944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/direlavezabena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7f2d36b79---7225467998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b322b0d2dc2---lilopopotolasoneroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077898299552---rikeligafurome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/xugizusasomexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d82651018c658bf833c3ae6af3fd63e/8708277246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429225626884075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savoie-outils-coupants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44214988031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loyallcanada.ca/editor_files/file/kumumakupad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents//files/5203316330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weddingceremoniesbybev.com/clients/72651/File/57259665994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emailposte.com/pictures/wepiguxiregul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3208760e73b8e2b64d66aafffbbd0845/gexoxewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/19824422666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/wibifiwase.pdfIn 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://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_off0000eb60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB60 11356 bytes
SHA-256: 8efc11a1ac950e4415309f0709e70a6ed1d0bb1970a64b810c095b2257f53901
font_01_sfnt_off00010608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10608 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E1A 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 48e7975adec7d010228b21670ba43516d8165c1c83dc1731c565c8121b031428