Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e0769ca8a2b41c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 02:00:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 09d50a1372cfe2d90c240dda48e02368 SHA-1: 1d8569dbd5fc30bd9846e994ec9d09117e0e59f5 SHA-256: 1e0769ca8a2b41c927584c04cb329d0c7aea0d4486a98002d6524a1fec72c2e0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for credentials. The presence of multiple external URIs and a 'download button' heuristic indicates a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+go+to+mac+recovery+mode PDF link annotation
    • http://studiotecnicodambra.eu/userfiles/files/sosamaman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7935c113c6c06b6845f4c8206ea68c6/86640829277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tw-itemaos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gubiwutaketixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://101-games.ru/images/uploads/files/sebolatosudilefanutave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recuva.kr/upload/fck_img/1631415781/file/2580022496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warwick-ems.org/userfiles/file/povasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140223ae7266---71396068096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents/files/sidaboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/90131816457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wellogo.in/userfiles/file///vopatonofekoxufibizisiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/xivebumoxaravosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movitecnic.com/ressource/site-image/files/78032428328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jabitilizesaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/17793770338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d2d110aec---kuzotumepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-09-04/images/files/rikeriwebopixijekipowep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12405741540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o77u5uiek6v0q5pnnpcgbhip6/joverifuvijanodenawak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksukartela.com/images_upload/files/woxovati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141256c87483---36385545494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hr-serdahel.hu/images/file/93066407931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/penimozimijugazazejuguvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a07a509569---tatejoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141107a26238---muxuli.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_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 10560 bytes
SHA-256: 0facfd4d6f7846c4163733f6de0cc71f1e310cdac6d1c12c4c684e25e847450f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB5E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11370 17548 bytes
SHA-256: c78a80772852cefdb47239220e03b654e564c2f1676439fe7ae682c4a10b2567