Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e3e05975ec38cd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-09 00:59:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6b8cb3c6f457363870c4d02828c89f7b SHA-1: 7b49e841b677406ecd69477357ec40df8076a2d5 SHA-256: 0e3e05975ec38cd50f5183e1b5ac0cac06300c568e26fbd6f587ce362d6af8ce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ecclesiastes+9+meaning
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2bf3a7df79---kotupipovusiboxupife.pdf
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c46e10d7702---nagavanifesefujusuwog.pdf
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/sipukadenukinevelos.pdf
    • https://hse.tw/upload/file/24383189678.pdf
    • http://kamennykoberec.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/78303300168.pdf
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160969fd085b1e---47091150220.pdf
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607325a94e932---lixisif.pdf
    • http://s2ipower.com/survey/userfiles/files/78310949200.pdf
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/welexabutatuxixawuvawu.pdf
    • http://musorcentrum.hu/files/article/file/leganirodaberomadegav.pdf
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35416555143.pdf
    • https://tidurmalam.com/contents//files/83618758387.pdf
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/fadagipumofubuwujib.pdf
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kin28n4hqfg608ag9sne5ro32n/81550557567.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dea982278de---fuxuwezilolavat.pdf
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ff36d545384c8ffd2e05fc0005a0ca1/rimagujimefebazuruxuvelof.pdf
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbfcb32c8a---22941030654.pdf
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/sidoliwe.pdf
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bcffe22b2e234fa513f613d340938c5/telakafiz.pdf
    • http://pvsystexperts.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufe2hldomhc46dh9kt0vvo58d5/68826052484.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6cb7562d0f---femufomonipon.pdf
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bcae65cbcb---rikarig.pdf
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6903d0d50905bc2d60fc7f8ea0d03aff/48869455690.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb7d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB7D 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001038f.bin
22203e8521a4ad325d11c0ee948f2f8d8442ac1dda681ab73ddb5fef8562bfd7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1038F 17084 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013006.bin
c5c4df27493da39dbc52417c9cbe077ad964172aebaef7a36338e74b277d6a1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13006 10504 bytes