Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7c3dfecb656c453…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:38:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2e28294389064f212702c5ed1e8d5e05 SHA-1: 6829c374563dd084fa1ced7fbc5d970c96fe5f09 SHA-256: e7c3dfecb656c4534f6cbb709d7f28725778e8981ae44d2a8fb8b4886c7e3798
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier with high confidence. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, many of which are hosted on disposable or suspicious domains. The file's structure suggests it's a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+insert+pdf+on+excel PDF link annotation
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071fecd8b780---gikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084836b27cee---ridobebujabitoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamadona.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98688887722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7d1dd69da2d7dec0a184db4c4e281e4/3928037917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--z4qq44i.tw/upload/actfiles/kogosupevus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brs.jo/userfiles/files/15323095801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursac.net/userfiles/file/56760851623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designbyjoseph.com/uploads/File/sexepizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/gerilafumavejefugemaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55bfae5d50---noponekixiwulufujonuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldcar.jp/userfiles/files/2824498174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9afc559fb638ae99ceaa51eaef2ec7af/68671099652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.crossfitparamaribo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114c8d518107---11970304519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f43b0c8fb7cbe3a40a78757495d92811/baxobupunufozabavobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omegapizza.net/uploads/files/16675983854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f41ab58d2---jubedoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaxtongroup.com/home5/maxconne/public_html/kaxtongroup/assets/images/newspostimages/files/retosarojaxub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ebbbbf899449fb577eaebb01e1d3d70/21350662066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6be73fd18---4637807690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodonionfestival.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31389232931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/63177989409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37451866560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waltonjohnsonfamily.com/clients/870437/File/zusobebudowam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113404327f13---kefagiraxigesipabif.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_off0000d399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD399 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 190a79f8ccb4a0fc39b224200d8bfd742a5ebb96f0627ee39f0860c52dcfe17a
font_01_sfnt_off000102ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ae1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AE1 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 01b93b4a8b51e082b9adba2b0c57e542ccf202ce215057512eee9228c443078a