Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e0aec04415145c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 02373597f7b2318a9d6477a7db99b338 SHA-1: 1bc20d42b037176e32a795d790fbe18e36fb1db3 SHA-256: 1e0aec04415145c5e4199cff01cf5edc184decae652e4aa345ad692a8d616221
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting, and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM shows links to compromised WordPress upload storage, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/83492564802.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://childhood-matters.com/clients/49507/File/8952492481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aeaf1bdd249---49760673009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccf56565d039613fc900fccd4bc9ad3c/57463500494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/94331416629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0c22d3fc46---kesakivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daikinhbac.com/upload/files/65273584774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/79786829825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/koool6c3fvkm7l11ph849uo5hp/xoditeroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611436294f48a---47537809355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resortcrimea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nifagujezefigamenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a8ecdf600af76e267c52d4cd8ea4ac9/muratibefisefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agermag.ro/mm/file/92076385477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plnjl.com/userfiles/files/jiked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/87838119311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nffcd.org/userfiles/files/bijogodaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bilbox.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40f8f3f0620421ae49750fe1a9595121/60704478031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075cfcfe2c4b---bidatizataxotajedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-13/20210513112153678553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72368c4e73cdd8cabefd3255a51192f4/wijegop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://home-hj.com/up_photo/file/23990862453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609605217cd90---4795284208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=manual+renault+clio+mio+2015PDF link annotation
    • http://pro.ovh.net/~tribuene/images/banque/file/diwowujujat.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_off0000c11c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC11C 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 195ecd541f24bb4bb220a83290c1134c1ab0f37c9e40321ccac4016f9eec9016
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FF 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 0bc7ba544f56014774a4d85f1f07fd91624ea7865e8b7d50a27ef78297f17ebf