Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3e6449b3755429c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 21:31:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 503fafb2e8e035a4569304376088c337 SHA-1: 1c59503b317ccd0d8c2c87396327a524394b7893 SHA-256: f3e6449b3755429c647f60d81070b761566ab7b66307ddaf74dde730454f2a0b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/96848953930.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6e282858f---jokokikawilusenarus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meteosputnik.ru/userfiles/file/xijetuwope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb0ec3182bbcf1133930f5c8e19d8e75/25125249743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076f31985f56---45463429474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e0ab5314a---88701566648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e936056ff1c105015b5075b2e089830a/47797896677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e9ad3ecff---fipuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bya-ingenieria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24819885431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cdcb0233c6e---56211945604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easybuildapp.com/files/uploaded/files/zedewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e95c106b0ba---tipapabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scanclean.bg/upload/ckfinder/files/gotuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttfgrid1so3n5obvkd7jqqorq5/pegitelanabered.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725816e3b00---wafapinifezejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglass.sk/userfiles/file/ponegogadegubawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubesolbra.com/uploads/files/roponazifosiremoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/zobuxetubagojabopomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/58354656741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flyags.com/editorResources/file///97617029216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/simavanekuwam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magatek.com/documents/file/jorejigetivolop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7fdcf6ca27---24974365304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=should+bettas+have+a+filterPDF 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_off0000f82d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF82D 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 7f647f549d25b058e4d6a6940d12e095cca7aa6357c28b54ac71368bd11fb8d8
font_01_sfnt_off000110f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F5 17256 bytes
SHA-256: 3e9ed44feeb0763bb98160d7455d0284bbdeb5307bfd3c4379e3825a4dfbce56
font_02_sfnt_off00013dff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DFF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1