Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e0494770ddb6837…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:47:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 57fbbfedfa28c4a7d5b850e00eb9e5f7 SHA-1: 2a92135d327137e1df0367f2f34fce4c4da74082 SHA-256: 1e0494770ddb6837470ff16457ebfbc13c8046010ef0b34e2d136725af9b5ac9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads. The presence of multiple links on compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting suggests an effort to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pycharm+community+tutorial+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://sarujiovalente.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t58984sgcb1g5pec13rgj7o871/67451710182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtlebanon62.com/clients/5/5e/5ee551a8be14a26d7d76bc5e90dd1372/File/46310901120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095fbb5d8b61---25729426364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/zexaliregifasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/zugotum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1da8261fbc2374dff94d34293379b582/gerazifakuzinapexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b44f73d05dacf6668206f7aa6179e658/lilosisilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-eko.eu/files/file/vakexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ce9655c67d---85072738140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85867277772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyfilevault.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/145be149ab3f031521617355c6ffa7dd/54211085342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/wixevejezijokebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a58f18fba16c369c4e70b40a833e55b/jidutelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euronet.stonavka.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11870770045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cc47b189424d88d1e28a0d84bc67760/falixiripup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687e2fbc8dd7c2f7e9be9ce8868fed1b/42416110202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a871b33f5---36248763723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forti.in/userfiles/file/38527828399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expresskaliski.info/file/lokiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gmc9i631dtnod3snlg1a8og23d/41228747023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e1edba22c0---kurafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/45999424366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3d4gn9k9sgn6o3155c3nbkqj5/49333553612.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_off0000d6e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eefb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEFB 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 492be2cae39836d9e2f09d372bb6da46b63c577d09ce5d98ef264609278484a8
font_02_sfnt_off00011bd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BD9 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 717345be910e59680d31b4fee3139cc1df2a5cf341820c5399261190565c0667