Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0e531b3397977b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 05:25:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 1c2728551e34215e374b3b899ef7236b SHA-1: e65b368da4c0b5add36c8f59c00dfaaa89a9f34a SHA-256: b0e531b3397977b08db42037113c490d761331ca3a413c5a8fa709ec9f1b0815
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://ripedzn.com/app/webroot/files/fckeditor/file/kulagexodorenukeri.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614117ecbc20c---gopomokarutunijomijisoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a025ae6df1---lililumeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9j0t0u3m9sb88cmnnc4lmmsisj/96838910353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d261a3aedd---berevalisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/1228905150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/16112748770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b42b4b10a3ed59bc67322048fbf52c0/jimokenigidobexuvujabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buka.ru/sadm_files/28125736190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54f33527f7e161aa11f9d2d017924bd4/75096026284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images/fck/file/9150062551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettipassarinmarzotto.com/userfiles/files/tazipapurisufuxebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/8652683010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullerton.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/1758447175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eaas-journal.org/survey/userfiles/files/69421298727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210905011444814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/52736837666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bluefashion.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dabunosumepameduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/11657041676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minhgianggroup.vn/upload/files/50288705982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ldfsqhddfvc4eo7ck2enc8gjog/3079282549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///levaxamipobitevitideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail.teleserviciomalaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pudubeposolojetasodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadingedgecorporate.com/user_images/file/lajolidojarefexikaguvolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/solafumewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=watch+rupaul%27s+drag+race+all+stars+2+online+freePDF 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_off0000dce8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4FF 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 837826b8c88e31537e8495c79a648763e4bbd75ad488d4ac0ca42a76f35ce970
font_02_sfnt_off00010ee6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EE6 19276 bytes
SHA-256: c6cc7e6abb2343be52947a55c3379b54d6ef758165bd503ad5f4cbdae00ef9aa