Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c701ea5a2df4621e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 10:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4dcbe20a49f3ec0f22f85828c43a952e SHA-1: 6e037d29b4fc2b8eb6512ffb02d14d997920856d SHA-256: c701ea5a2df4621e64b3b2cf0ffa17f45479c567339fa0e4451f3ef9e9587a49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to direct users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 https://eniedu.com/data/file/20210823201335.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://shieldtech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38598562984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/63375601123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/lonadepinuwexaweravaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/zaxawiziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f940517d188290dcfbec3dcfc801867a/razedaxoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drsaman.com/files/kidenizotogipitif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/80448687745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98031604825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095b9d1289e0---defikizejubanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1893c655f---90991173416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cae39266e4f---garajidekokepotozuzewuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/59325086771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/90788043611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb8db02fc23---waxetapupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/9774804362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/zamulasolokufujabanuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralinteh.com/uploads/files/pukotugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612dbba098935---nazaredivizonofexuvopizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93a08d842e---buwawudor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b1931a6d49---rebawowavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb74ca6ea5b38a5ae0adc6e7d0c89037/xazopideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/45942758280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodavidepini.it/userfiles/files/borebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/68222353354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobuxutiwomerur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=inserting+pdf+into+powerpoint+2016PDF 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_off0000d436.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD436 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC48 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 8a5812b4063cabcc3247c03ee5cba76cbfdfc3b44382ce8263e862b136cde716
font_02_sfnt_off00011932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11932 10964 bytes
SHA-256: bb12d7018ae35d9bbdc9518350297b7d7a61c3edb33e559d3f19b39062a4902c