Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e113dbbc53d71c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 10:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 83e216eeb4c931e9140a5922bf0bf86b SHA-1: 9b530d1149aa8fc974c4c947bf1211082811d61e SHA-256: 0e113dbbc53d71c434e08ad4ba454859bcbd6f2883e0bc0f2e947b416c291003
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87805528010.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/85555573724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanggroup.com/webroot/img/files/pajizivewotejofal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamshs-pdx.com/clients/d/d3/d3c120c733f7363e2cdaef2cff5f3687/File/jifedalerojobokafug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariopresto.pl/userfiles/file/faporinajam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160880382a66b8---79930778157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ha6klnsubmh5rc6igesn03dsb4/bovonirababejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ed5bcf03ac---kejenusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098475bf288c---28173020219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608891c44b7b5---woxibotimefasusugizibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73468152077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/sevofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e914ead4298---mefotasodizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9f99017584---38156837650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210524/file/16218600918058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chataphan.com/file_media/file_image/file/lamefagejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f2b27ce809---21482747298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a65d38a34ec---63620718213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namadexawevujufoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkhairi.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997db9a0e1662264053884cb75487342/55041329191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d45ee3ca3---47928350876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/rotitetogaduxudogemego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoahaibara.com/data/dulieu/files/nuzadepimoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+many+feet+is+54+cmPDF 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_off0000c963.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC963 15344 bytes
SHA-256: c1ebb71c693b1e65a127111a4bffb64c8673ed55b2f0b84ecb46b89135e87f15
font_01_sfnt_off0000efc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DC 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 1688d3d06c248950199fb5d5562f8e6891b2935611332ec5b48a31ffaffda517