Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c0e7d270c189e5f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-15 18:49:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: e22344afbe77ac39d546d901cad24c98 SHA-1: ac3d5f4ad85235f0674e4cfa79ee29f1e18f23c7 SHA-256: c0e7d270c189e5f43a0a1be32a0e980c712e8d824603f1809794a83693759084
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm. The link farm points to multiple distinct hosts, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The embedded JavaScript likely serves to further the malicious intent, potentially by executing further malicious code or redirecting the user.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://nabsangram.com/userfiles/file/85227727775.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/56466818728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/rifezinefagiririlavovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0d4jcs48d3agh5vf2dm9oq552/vuxetinimobododosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac1c04b6d57---rufigesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ugokkeklj2mae9vducor7f3vb9/dadekemowetijux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/77718023394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/99193239681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/sufowuzakefaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/87655655443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd3f6366c3eaffbde213b9db27968e5a/48785779791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gu74kcnc1f0aucc25vhv5el1l4/24014398780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aeaf3f0e3ad460ab24d074bde06ade56/kolemivefolemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardenofsound.com/userfiles/files/56443065719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f7f611fcda---48284509330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/msse0cfdat1er6f7omnv61799b/14417794839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lifestaralberta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f40a37b7dd---99037451349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3321r2jjc0vc7ett0qt2vpbn94/37785346148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danielbushreunion.com/clients/41596/File/82001683300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://empezo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/boroxiwifujuxugelejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608934e316b4e---pomelajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608340b2c7c1b---zajovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/bigirafovupilitatuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=guanacaste+costa+rica+weather+by+monthPDF 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_off0000ed41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED41 18084 bytes
SHA-256: cedf9ff130c87b098ba61ce838713c146848cd4f5cca58176ab99f030434dadb
font_01_sfnt_off00011c63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C63 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001347a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1347A 10928 bytes
SHA-256: f342a55fc85aa7d566bfbbd2b0baf976bbc648763d1198d464ac068037b7ddaa