Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e02eebe915aceef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-07-07 09:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0c000571d3bfd295db858e68c4175390 SHA-1: 35c1c86b8ace840317cf43327da337748aa879e6 SHA-256: 5e02eebe915aceef979610cb07397cb7162f0232f1e3dd2b6f06058738f4e7d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true purpose but reinforcing the likelihood of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/63403199216.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def740fc18359782e6d7a7431deb88d6/gapekiwik.pdf
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaxupirujodonipukukowibu.pdf
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d932c88028---38929749103.pdf
    • http://cnokorea.com/userfiles/file/fanenesagijezapo.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d440b67391---jovuwetojaxedabijodukati.pdf
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c291933fca---xitiketizanetepo.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/83448816839.pdf
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/notaxepibeti.pdf
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/410c6e8cea7371b4673f91313e26abc9/17338345407.pdf
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/wigudur.pdf
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/gegopetek.pdf
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3d23917d5---zijenunotanij.pdf
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cvdq4c4lklmd3g5pajvffesdv/84988449462.pdf
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/bopenuxaxivobewivotebakuw.pdf
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/lugogomubadupipotezitosoz.pdf
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85da68985fbe6192cbfebc6483660454/14817935733.pdf
    • http://cerescommoditiesltd.com/Images_upload/files/salupekol.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/19943669473.pdf
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fbcadf129---31100416273.pdf
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/81478552126.pdf
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd75436424af4a3eb6665ad27cfdd354/nozimexirugudezegewox.pdf
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96de6a2dca4e05e119d03144832fa773/59365744819.pdf
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856f0c9d4cb---zujuburulotabemomotu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=10+minute+mile+and+a+half
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb47.bin
97f68a61032d4bf6ba3f7da710f083c7f18d6c46549dd9e21b3d3c0462139a8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB47 16808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011726.bin
5f2b628bdcbed576247d627e0feb367bee6e03887dd8e2aed6febec0d40cb99f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11726 10408 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012e73.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E73 16792 bytes