Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e686d1347691758…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-17 07:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 73e311404cdccb8113862f7a84390955 SHA-1: 7e2ef5b5184e31f5c46d232f31954add0ac021b8 SHA-256: 0e686d13476917585c9a064ca6709aed762db2b3bc252785d1a61003d9c2ea32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is designed to lure users into clicking through to malicious destinations.

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 http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d8789679---1160626277.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/buzufipuvik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/62472185700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sure2trips.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/robogitumad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d0e8b1195---folikimaropananivilojopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/31349628278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czdashan.cn/uploadfile/file/2021050805505373499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/88063778061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nrlandscapes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f94a9c87ea5f3001f9d564f95276406/finiguvusana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29690918783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/31104172621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/94300453425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakadentalcare.com/contents//files/zofusipapunanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972bf3c8105---nipabewuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vishalahospitality.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xemugode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/wodemuref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094deaaf1738---jibetizowufosek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/317280fcbb4716fde75130712f7a8912/lekawafidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/33193478079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/86549054364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://romalasergroup.com/userfiles/files/titiregalajonexazugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/zotoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/99042956921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebfde89647---fesifefiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=software+engineering+by+ian+sommerville+9th+edition+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_off0000eb36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10348 16300 bytes
SHA-256: 41fb095e574c3f8659b61c64b123bc0e784d89b6738b4cfd7215359e8d7e9771
font_02_sfnt_off00012d6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D6B 11592 bytes
SHA-256: 4779dd6c64ae4b1576802bce7a50ed90968ff455e30146878d026147c4165bad

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