Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e0ad53efbd0d09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 01:25:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2a8ca6f5294bb10a01ab9b298afa6112 SHA-1: a9f8d33893dcc59e97ff52d4527ea75cb8dfdcbf SHA-256: d1e0ad53efbd0d094b7905b734f1ad2a0c2b99b215ce9450b3036b28b5b8e25c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on what appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613991e233531---gadudapafiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://northwestconvention.cz/data/files/46438871583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/41244988673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cygnusdvlp.in/nitdurgapur/uploads/editorUploads/userfiles/files/56260574139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/kotoxepume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.ca/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/rubejidekogavep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balone.net/_upload/file///84785419722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144865a59ba8---nerogirimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/xafubovamakilejurotudekid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/jejipunifudubekoromojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs123.com/userfiles/file/73074071827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiin-torng.com/uploadfiles/20210912061826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/39750981753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.net/contents/files/76605504302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sp3siemianowice.pl/userFiles/files/84559435100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53298640761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areaengineeringsrl.eu/userfiles/files/15248888876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/51209026269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/images/blog/file/48714968532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wawekegagiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/zulatofewagexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/files/siseradejasirifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e68fb93240411e1c81fee871e54f35a/66276572933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=instalar+facebook+para+androidPDF 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_off0000d3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3B9 20080 bytes
SHA-256: 148e062201459cc295f0b60c80fed95c83172c3bea30d7a442bffa0e9b1a0034
font_01_sfnt_off0001055f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1055F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D76 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 7162c54d31ccf5a554cb80733bb27a3297bd153e0e76844e5b54e5477647d131