Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e026bc9dcec82222…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-28 07:43:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4caf37b32896576500f5bbb8265d3d42 SHA-1: a668ff7b21a9c862b805d1f0428d5bfff8714f65 SHA-256: e026bc9dcec82222d7b3eaa5f2dec0439310b1316520d38e43f2dd34a0ca8250
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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 http://thucphamchucnangmy.vn/uploads/files/37464637403.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ville-dammarie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49912607760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.santabriganti.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/visujoxazuxujonubek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcenterdk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/40847494934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokrowce-ochronne.pl/Upload/file/lilalexikufaruwugudekog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4e3261bc8954e83fda29d1ffd713bba/49137578963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--q20b13r9leepaeb.net/upload/file/202109030351346130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxebonaderojagifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villahetzwartepaard.nl/survey/userfiles/files/63521830598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labsshop.com/d/files/52870990709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-24/20210924130316820474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/lutokujosanikiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacificengineering.co/imagenes_cont/sitio/documentos/26761634074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luijkzonwering.nl/image/file/42630774450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/16397434533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawcab.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614efa946604a---faxozav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161445de905e0d---30219687572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eraldocomo.it/userfiles/files/53746015099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamisonfurnace.ca/userfiles/files/50402650881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odessawa.com/userfiles/file/8385918723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/37141680035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=i+need+help+with+math+homeworkPDF 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_off0000afb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFB5 15564 bytes
SHA-256: 5f96c9f6bf417a419b780be0595f97f5ae3286c93250c5e17d6e3a0c0f5e3693
font_01_sfnt_off0000d706.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD706 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1D 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 1871bab4e90e1b33521de95d8a22401834e8f5bc77d1deeb229621560bf309a7