Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e0e0c65d40097bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 05:01:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 8075242363f6f9560f7d4959d4c929ba SHA-1: d70d9d97ae346a68084b6bbd9727cf2e1983695b SHA-256: 1e0e0c65d40097bfa1bed880ac69ce478b729d01ce7749d8dd217fa89db8a73e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://drinkandshrink.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c44fb3ea6b8---70850334452.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28cb5ce7a59e246548328628d2e4bc17/79318115790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/xaralizuworofewemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dineflon.com//files/61467405253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/31394378247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/99044958854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jjbb5a93ph727bt7ba9nueso4q/vuwiworoxumesuwozozojarum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womenscouncildallasarboretum.org/clients/85748/File/90288775044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4301946004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbb15000d0---gisufewebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44251360847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b90fef8d4065fb9b42c5f9fc470c53a5/20990314179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/vubidiraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/vefulofuwudukozuxurene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210805135715151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6ebf8eb6e---berapigiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/48200855330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://backupcenters.com/userfiles/file/83649418100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998f4e9d0fd---72855719835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/687840bcab0f8c365e6dc549474c0cf0/49005230610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mybizwebsites.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb84d742e3---nagiwevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4314fbdaa5---23725984273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/38957061456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c-effeimmobiliare.it/file/jujivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marciasmithconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e019c26a7270b9b289ce4bfb3ec239d5/5166093929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=silberman+ortopedia+y+traumatologia+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off0000eb33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB33 18804 bytes
SHA-256: 899cf31e8d0c591873877bc05012ff6a9da7d6644a49c0079eb22e5a58262d45
font_01_sfnt_off00011ad4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD4 11272 bytes
SHA-256: c415bc21cb4bb0a7511caf9bfb09f0d05c010ffd411f3188785fa52a0974af2f
font_02_sfnt_off000134d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1