Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4eb9dbb502f7cbe1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-01 12:50:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f5c9b400180ae7566335e7964739d3ce SHA-1: ed60fa56a2a6b865a8adfdded0dbceef9fb7cb6f SHA-256: 4eb9dbb502f7cbe16c800f85b0eb0f271a755f705e7e6a5d5dee5a28ca57cad5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting and employing SEO tactics, indicative of a link farm designed for malicious redirection. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file, likely serving as a lure to exploit clients.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://kaiyudachem.com/filespath/files/20210815135721.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb7bcd89a7---nisonelenidodumoziwanipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocenzura.space/web/img/podborky/files/libatujoxeson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/ditilumuweratitewiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/jogikififudurafuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argyler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607717f3903c2---juxefefavifabufesokujup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/417f8e43b60192504e6cd1b2f28945cf/kowamidenen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/12680106931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gd-weimi.com/upfolder/e/files/20210805235258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoretras.com/file/14147136638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/febevubenepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoanggiaphatland.com/uploads/image/files/kuvurivajisonotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c27627ea24eb8016ff3704559dd4612/bososavipudekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eddb38db8a603217e12929a57f6e4e4f/54126139998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/641b868a0dfbb1ccc16acf34ebd5b5d0/xotixapavuterudosabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2a6d6269e2---tepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/rivolutoriripe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a40acf51310---tefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/ditinokemabotokure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelpenza58.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/880903087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://techson-cctv.com/upload/file/98643141009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/65021757026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://666666.vn/upload/fck/file/97440842769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charontrade.hu/data/file/77263832158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=country+inn+and+suites+kalispell+montanaPDF 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_off0000e3ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC01 18780 bytes
SHA-256: 01c441b52f420e0495c0b132859afa3a2a07796965eef5c9ea04a199b7f0d662
font_02_sfnt_off00012c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C44 10892 bytes
SHA-256: af556623f85b84ca7315f13dd14355fed8a7b44b0615000d696ca99df614aebd