Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e3e10fa7bd1c233…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-10-05 06:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: e7cd87486005c2313115020a732506ad SHA-1: ca5d0b8d5c709563445eae192a8e60a17c4c544e SHA-256: 0e3e10fa7bd1c23340dbf29a9c51bc559db2bc170b966d77deb4ae79679490f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised or malicious websites. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates these links are on disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nth+term+expression PDF link annotation
    • https://hanomanberjaya.com/contents/files/55349753354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nataliashishkina.com/userfiles/file/juwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscraphandlers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xikabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/63005966681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietxetai.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p632elkvevj24rbfefpvcogagk/sobexonexijevusokefobafom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/77262623999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/6763342834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peretprod.ro/content-images/file/gukidemogitulikevuniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/gaxixinadutetagenudit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d16a531e7---88223126043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2016.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95555083052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/56629617275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoneza.cz/UserFiles/File/5834602867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanifeugur.com/image/files/82389866729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90d184365ce7736700f8a822aeec8a64/45278960264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/69912883067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woft-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/laxugan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/12624186873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1430779036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/14903520505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elrey-uslugi.ru/media/file/wepolidagiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ego-sofa.tw/uploads/files/202109260547408802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdavloeren.be/userfiles/files/liwapovidijinexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dveropolis.ru/upload_picture/46442574533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000bb77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB77 19300 bytes
SHA-256: 7f7384ec9fa505f0658f7d3297e3384d4616a1f0ad1d821610c759951e9e0687
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104CC 10388 bytes
SHA-256: d85b9ede41ab1b0c91fc692002f8a05a772691f9c919f091de86aa53df89e608