Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e1947edc462ab5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 598142d13139935860aa73fb9e3816ed SHA-1: 73c38d21b341ea048e0e437f0a39713fd638949c SHA-256: 0e1947edc462ab5b04b0539c8db90020450293d077f72875531e747ab9ca3eb6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a spearphishing attachment attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://www.buildonhope.org/file/gipiwu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109080053062187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14137096215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pecsimutargygaleria.hu/files/file/7879569862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascad-trans.ru/files/12441448796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/rixigojejukixasep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/ckfinder/files/files/84793501448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/nemav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613888bc29d86---28176820089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hataylezzeti.com/resimler/files/vexisukujiboposufokomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nulumakexaretil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f7c666527---lifapixinureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/ninowebobenoxevojulokuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109111233135447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/54249136055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19e03340582b422f285fd53f012abf8/dupezewegivubevosaluzakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/xotokugekopomomorafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161409186b50d3---banevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrmhandling.nl/upload/file/24770499648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/40674595963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05176e5631bbcdcdb768458740b486af/retuxosizomigugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otohyundaidanang.com/uploads/image/files/28916908123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/birojogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istihdamhaberleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/1121399369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/89886072090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafaninovamelap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=app+store+for+windows+10PDF 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_off0000dfc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC6 10524 bytes
SHA-256: e0016c3f30c0a2d51385b6838358a70fb59df1085d9b71190c46235f14715082
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F5 18244 bytes
SHA-256: 22bf007a8d987c8d491ae393f2ec109e4dbc05a2e1ae51aa1e5676430a076012
font_02_sfnt_off000126d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1