Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9a3d3b80704d8d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-04-30 18:29:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: c63d9ec2d7393c0f557bc5894aa45984 SHA-1: 328afa96cf1af534dd22cc674e0a86ba07e206c7 SHA-256: e9a3d3b80704d8d30fe2ee6366086c9ae00233944419a94ee4843b424c80fbc9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious domains suggests an attempt to deliver a second-stage payload or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429190641963986.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fbab5a6f9---naxatapajejedopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083818f33277---wasexepagojewaloxumizedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bf791d202359419f6f2d0ac847ffa63/75315572161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3818fa384c91cbdca6b6790db0bc4740/dijefiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81624e6a45b03178568d6bfd4c259eaa/nuzod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abe-rdc.com/userfiles/file/28744014321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/288b1dbabc4b6bdb1a9c48ca0d67d2f1/66490449998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607848aabca49---15778054552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albispanaderia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12a5890cbc2a28e9a1e3aaaf6a856329/jodefukalawikikubadap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074828e275e8---33119799208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b81359a290a361ea102c8ef0f2dc303/lesupivimifemofebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160741245c98c0---26747620805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489lilu32tjkn4kjsi3i3rsto1/nibozuxekaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085cbfca3ef4---38221146949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=clear+plexiglass+acrylic+sheet+film+maskedPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000106e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106E5 5400 bytes
SHA-256: f5915f98cfc2fac63bc6c46c7942c894bca9d809e28a5ec93df6817861dc3ef4
font_01_sfnt_off00011952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11952 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 9be8bccf40adfed212837859130cafd5c91f8de603d3f20fd84be5b8e6829a18
font_02_sfnt_off00014026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14026 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3