Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e046c0de78d5f59e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-08-30 16:48:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: ca7666c8797f670e7d0c987e0499a147 SHA-1: 2c9b0c89b9559e84bec2923dff92c3148fb69083 SHA-256: e046c0de78d5f59e6b81572f732bd763118ef20ef23e3722940e34b8ceb43743
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and contains embedded JavaScript. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s76v0t8of8uupn61j6stbieu4/konaveveworabezabetagig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/25782485838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607251f69a63c---3323534414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/22243743593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edgecs.net/documents/5585395024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ieldtnufej5mlbaqa7ovddh65f/dagipofaxasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machi-tomo.xyz/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28065643422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11212170258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf274ef7d2---robabej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6900073759da68435124a712a2e6993f/87029840878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100a4d93ea71---tudiravopebisuvigeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610df311969fa---30804630481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9daa68f861e083d42779f43faaddf96/werawuruvonenemavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitaldanceacademy.com/userfiles/files/puxuwejaroserekidikon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/59444483944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsasecretariat.fr/userfiles/file/58696878549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee108da7079---sakofobokoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc9814bc8533d4a5a191a76259f0303b/giwisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/92331731034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606edc225f6a6---limek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b0fe39d5408a80491b0a8318e14e265/96960324825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80520775661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c9ea6ff60faa1f638e940508785107d/56338670907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+rote+learningPDF 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_off0000e199.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE199 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 0b0ce1d82478bda3d669c99a3ad0872ef3d650a35c2e72ff8012104836b9a6e3
font_01_sfnt_off0000f90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF90D 18892 bytes
SHA-256: 90c5924b1356aab7b5b6235e50c55cafd060c6c6b1091eababe40f5f63e410c3
font_02_sfnt_off00012a6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A6C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1