Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e368d9699673d03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 7b2d40d2b2cd2a6fec62d3a8e53c2a76 SHA-1: 44b1497816e69243b02bad66d8ab322245c67140 SHA-256: 0e368d9699673d031a5bc4a3499b4d9ff0314095bb27b848186d38b507b2523b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv41sgi54f04rpd08jou04t197/binofetibiwitokofujeniza.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/dulutabolaxobupapagipani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suavitinhtannha.net/upload/files/65592596188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/195d54n3ftu4msb5d6j70ock46/lojolinulidix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avantagesapp.com/uploads/files/32899340131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bungefamily.com/clients/5233/File/posepetafeleduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160814bab4002e---wuxiniloridajakazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweetbasketsbyjackie.com/clients/864293/File/nujexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/16065071289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yingzhaoliuart.com/upload/file/88506587763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog//file/joguloneluvol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9afbe2dd7---2325958549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/31068724402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/newuwazudojorox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brazilairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vorunujumaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/fidex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayihoki99.com/contents/files/35820386642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a78b37e08e---7542316993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a7a6ba5c5---disopuwojukefepapenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202172545316835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/78586795064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd55b335a6f5c7bcadd661f415854f7f/mijenamuxivasufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pratiklinik.com/img/userfiles/files/7202693016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607994abbc9bf---vigegusedobezojobelanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f92321e33eb90cf013b36dbca956d316/93980680057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+page+extractor+freewarePDF 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_off0000f1ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1ED 17128 bytes
SHA-256: f26a3d1fc48ece7873c1b635615d9303ee75a07126d566a16941f45206ef101b
font_01_sfnt_off00011e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E22 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 522e4a3807ca67048f47921c0d10e7b3a3c0b929df1781055e5c6bd05a353792
font_02_sfnt_off00013644.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13644 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1