Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3edb4c4518a582e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 23:51:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c1b698dc585518d971274faa0c90e975 SHA-1: a11aa0ee5f8de3ead43f7470aa006b7b61e86dd9 SHA-256: e3edb4c4518a582e15866ac700ed78d345db77e95429c42040d759b78cd07dde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the presence of numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=lesion+aguda+de+medula+espinal+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://msr-hudsonproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52829fa27afe2a5c8c005c7982df71fb/49559242461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/sejuteded.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-amc.com/upload/files/4468411991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jlgardner.org/home/jlg/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejoxuriwogevigakowavuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/87962309751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/82152618810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160affabe077a4---bunusoralajevaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keralabiblesociety.com/fck_uploads/file/71650238065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a267ae43865e8d968105bbebb4aa52f/nodedejatakazeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwish-cosmetics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160809ab50102a---84833490401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160961b3bf2191---7595364282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/70757895719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents//files/jenekovobabiduked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newat.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e024e513612f1b39ba3163320aa68fc/dowazurazakoxagugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/745ddf7de28a4702f679e2a03f55560f/94029280744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottonweb.net/userfiles/file/6512156833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-dcc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e9uu2ajmle3eq7be41h8fppg5/82583163819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853c0c6a925---viwogegamegabenijepunex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2bb3ad5b7e83cc23c12222743a1773c/jemetogunasaduseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmkstroi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d403b5bef23b7df037d9bba9694df4/27161382155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buyafranchise.org/files/files/wewijigaxijodozamosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c64ce1b85c2---34821191285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/zojokeroxamupabozukivopix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmaciasacoor.com/site/upload/file/52248882988.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_off0000df5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF5E 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 80c14d371a711eb697f8758c747e7c2792411d7b687cfe2626fd056709864df7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A0 17768 bytes
SHA-256: 8d2c5e88e29bd73f2fbcdfe8d5dc72e531b66e862dd2761e7e38d00776996d6f
font_02_sfnt_off000124b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1