Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e008a92c249e45ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-10-06 03:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f4e11b2d039562e6c34d7059554646d6 SHA-1: 2ada0a9a3e07abdc5b5a410dcd63c9f379504e93 SHA-256: e008a92c249e45ef0b864cb87d8afacfcc984ea8f8ae879f91ce4b358049de31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting. While no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of link farms in PDFs often involves JavaScript to facilitate redirects, hence the inclusion of T1059.007. The primary attack pattern is likely to lure users into clicking links that lead to further malicious content or downloads, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://lrsinc.co/userfiles/file/pazaborelejivu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a42bb5b4d9---82148521243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/64376581200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cohn-vossen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161521b8b5bb06---84237905847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a9e42a54a0eea75a49a83b5e3352b2a/5996221851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutskytools.com/d/files/50521734600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/kipulidumuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matchedtubes.de/userfiles/file/zekariro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanaspinler.net/calisma2/files/uploads/xejosemetazapovusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inwestorfinanse.pl/userfiles/file/vuletepodusojezimikivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/65557947985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenabilardo.com/data/_files/42838848964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/timedaduselosubefafomisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99368282676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekainternetowa.net/_mdm_apteki/file/59056002164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/rokugasodamavawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/69606798803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://culturasiapamplona.com/guiarte_userfiles/files/41719010754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ninda.vn/userfiles/files/sinigituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133111074c99---lokusuniladipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idealist.ro/userfiles/file/juxitoposaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=simple+sketches+for+beginnersPDF 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_off0000ba35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d24c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24C 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 14717bc82cc688b9dbb3769d39b3b48e5852ade65d11f2e3b4db48c8d7910aab
font_02_sfnt_off0000eba1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA1 17216 bytes
SHA-256: 5f2e99e1bc5e2661326db8d8950fadc977c01c11c3cf1097cee154b07bcd538e