Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e00ac19a2d460bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-10-16 13:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 6bc5829ca855887c241a2120366eace9 SHA-1: 54727b576f681e4c8b1f12a18a43f6879c86b9ae SHA-256: 1e00ac19a2d460bf03419eb7a1bbe529e14ac2676f64444a7520c7b37e1877e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest a phishing or trojan payload delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/71204399495.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ti22t0vcc8ali470fgv2nrjb7/38721953489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexibd.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/77289257825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615f4a38229d3---rugifosezepokoravekedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xosobacninh.vn/webroot/img/files/zonepowizajubasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/26799676737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161581452326ab---90750573379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tanhoaphat.vn/userfiles/file/63182272830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c02a33085e29e13e2d89450b326f4893/ramalizajeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lazerom.pro/media/file/87144193551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolesnikov.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sujonowutogorosivavewazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsongphuong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/funorodozubowiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161342c266aa31---95415111243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duvokakolegafosixilujaras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lbjgold.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/joluvutaliruluzagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easresidence.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/fijibojevanumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometracosentino.com/userfiles/files/datiramuwovakafetajisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/xodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/jiwugokubimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tichdiem.surecare.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/92636386901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myvideoclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/kovajonifefilafewijovowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16161810a406cf---39286385924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilubam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxugalebapinilabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fj9rgjla32vgoisg5t2tqrebds/72906774057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/RhDyTiV0TgQ/uplcv?utm_term=create+your+own+real+life+word+problem+involving+rational+expressionPDF 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_off0000e02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE02A 17416 bytes
SHA-256: 54cf540d134807998a0a14f35ca6324e691f7c77b96861bc7848ae2ccc15b6a8
font_01_sfnt_off00010d72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D72 11480 bytes
SHA-256: 1885664e12defa938bf0711de34fd238ae9ed2188d3046f7b972fcc80f09ae0c
font_02_sfnt_off0001283c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1