Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0487d2530549ad0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

123.7 KB Created: 2021-08-15 11:54:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2c257cd87e4fbd94ca359ed6092c84b7 SHA-1: 0327cf5460991baafd906e7d064828ef0e348b96 SHA-256: e0487d2530549ad0f14e677b9a65042ca3d83d74a325c9ccc1a1886bcacd98d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a phishing or SEO poisoning attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9276

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://singaporenotarypublic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b36a20f125022699cd30bee8bac6f37/41391288704.pdf
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh7g3pk81j75r2upbjd3b8eks4/melijusipugedo.pdf
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ilua4mn3b797phlcl3js3q3nns/68378675151.pdf
    • http://ipceurope.eu/assets/file/xafaxopesogamuvofebivax.pdf
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzekalaxibepomagenenimu.pdf
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/va4ba19ed8jme7j8flvop90pn4/devefidodot.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980ae09c9e7---manazakaduma.pdf
    • http://habitat3.eu/userfiles/files/vunejanasaboru.pdf
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/xakeduxakufowuvol.pdf
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/55415497152.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898f282a068---30540018506.pdf
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/99792281271.pdf
    • http://tdfinalists.ca/clients/43449/File/kajabajo.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba0907103f6---bojifivibetinoriga.pdf
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42380330679.pdf
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/togaw.pdf
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/28142613070.pdf
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e46095691---xakofu.pdf
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/nuvegeritigevi.pdf
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fcadf6a4bc---lemimiwunitiva.pdf
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0491a74198---lekeremumivajewapivivuj.pdf
    • http://epodhajska.eu/UserFiles/File/wekoxugijalaseziji.pdf
    • http://filatelianumismaticaumbra.it/userfiles/file/85533196470.pdf
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1df3fbd36cf837c5506de27dee481aa9/50416886312.pdf
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210703_142428.pdf
    • https://prestinieurope.com/userfiles/files/xijoruxisebetabuw.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=waterboss+900+parts
    • 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000140ab.bin
2377eb1967f77978e6bd9fccbfb788e966a03fd43759a62c3f6d0e3fc4e71873
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140AB 26600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018528.bin
495aac0292ac05371ee13b1951803147d821396c45c2d09f892eafa444755a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18528 10424 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019cbf.bin
8a8756269f20a0a0ae7cf1b9284fde7475fb92fd334c8080f0710824004be60b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CBF 17620 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001b853.bin
4f60a8a189586c7b5fd6a43c4ec3a3b412a1463681c77e4bb1cf69f2a65bfe96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B853 3360 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0001c558.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C558 16792 bytes