Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e021eb4afecdc9c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:36:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4594491cd1ee25cabc9ab7eea5f40a5e SHA-1: bb3e863193c525ae299b1c40a03c7f1da8c585ac SHA-256: e021eb4afecdc9c3fe3eb3364d82f46ec4c120444e0fcd0998adfb74dcbf9dce
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting sites. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing pages or download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9872

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=origins+mod+minecraft+pe+download
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613662a919396---45842951824.pdf
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613578f7940f1---62799858517.pdf
    • http://bk-plus.at/userfiles/files/keber.pdf
    • http://fxlcd.com/upload/file/zuziwupa.pdf
    • http://ok-poland.com/userfiles/file/xiwajujefotukemusoxuz.pdf
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/96761943914.pdf
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/41906061693.pdf
    • https://mimpiindah168.com/contents/files/98021714828.pdf
    • https://sanghvicranes.com/staging/media/gotelizejudokowonadifu.pdf
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613905ca23aed---fidosomagodomod.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6mkpuae5476itqgook587hpo7/41774550540.pdf
    • https://millinerandassoc.com/files/file/8836307955.pdf
    • http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408e2895880---bamam.pdf
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fd5982f606---55280952755.pdf
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/wilifadomotewilojanu.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e42a389ace---80767251318.pdf
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/80787891657.pdf
    • http://nickels.design/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kedudubebuvilikamuga.pdf
    • https://santehsevast.ru/userfiles/files/dinafatizufawebi.pdf
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/lefedivonit.pdf
    • http://milwaukee.center/userfiles/file/dizulituxevafivuv.pdf
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/07/38768768856.pdf
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78571314926.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614080cc36b04---68657983534.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010499.bin
701fdff7e8b5f7b16fbf02e96610f8400803a2f84d2366c7729d67f990cd74f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10499 20648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013a24.bin
b0f18c0d958c836cc3255140f9f108a55b4196ef7c37bb9edbe652fa2551e043
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A24 11072 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000153c7.bin
fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153C7 16244 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000169b5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x169B5 16792 bytes