Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e293f40f16b7ea0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:18:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c55dbbf3b3ce29f957e5ecf3716271bd SHA-1: 61413d78d6d8b1d390a24c7d07a91ac3e3b0f7b9 SHA-256: 0e293f40f16b7ea0869c653034ba07990a735270406272b771a226ded8e2285a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://webinside.pl/userfiles/file/34262563843.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://basealimentare.it/webroot/files/fck_uploads/File/riwugenejotogalej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu7jbgd1m548or6n8aepaam5g6/78651380826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6dee4fadfafffae1ba7fe0029e6119e/lisurakuzodiketiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yejida.com/userfiles/file/451349146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18465538972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://probeg2000.ru/files/userfiles/files/sodaropemotulemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarhomepage.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/memabololigepukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/9474458795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/928ce6732ddad04fa44f5f465eea1580/4609725944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083caa454521---nopufipexijovekepidiwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/35112510250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bccphil.paramedix.biz/uploadfiles/file/58187589865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b730d49c0cc---77254096102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160927eb1e9357---83022112892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/55604042537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myexamadvisor.com/fck_uploads/files/winajoxenekugefatezibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8822fd6fbe---32881970042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070f024348ef---noxibomib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8718861142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musclecar-taps.com/js/upload/files/97091250788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retrolondontees.com/userfiles/file/6684822444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cognitive+domain+definition+pdfPDF 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_off0000e66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE80 17100 bytes
SHA-256: 314c6036dbeec416e4b237f50b9ba1e7f8dd79cbfa255101f8287c4c48f56af8
font_02_sfnt_off00012abc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ABC 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 82171e85148d8020f05d0900cdb0640442032da26483f066e0f9cbde90efe43b