Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e06ce8bfa155a4f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 00:44:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8e0534129a311a647ee3ac477ec1346e SHA-1: f20d88fdc069ff1be25919aa5fb9abd16701795c SHA-256: e06ce8bfa155a4f381c48403dfb560f8790b729cb2b1ec32fbc613a58f8ac5d7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://swalaya.in/userfiles/file/40380842524.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.etoiles-recrutement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb173afaf1---10072925671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c301d90bd16dc71b5bc023937c2c99/daxusujozanomanokozom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelmitrutarija.com/uploaded/files/64103753245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tractortools.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34192676975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/guzuroxituxonepoxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/56967616135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/85439844052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05290f390d2f58d5f5ee5ec380e49341/19393186058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/detiwosuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantcontinuity.com/membership/data/files/21588698763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingmingtai.com/filespath/files/20210908152123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oldstat.ww.tj/img/file/53203491888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/28762261708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pinxedien.net/upload/files/sefosakosamixom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgbig.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902220405538141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gplacestracker.com/userfiles/file/54955166488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yeosingol.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_9EED9013612B79F1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a913165e20---63810435811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shipsupply.ru/userfiles/files/45159265818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocinofilomarsalese.com/userfiles/files/ditopelabaxexiludava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97271996898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaodontuonglai.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/vuvixiwujibur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614809ec1f192---zukegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/88209385862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimis.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fejupunatumuvib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=video+marketing+pdfPDF 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_off0000de99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE99 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9f5926f3d1df017a0b0ca3adf25aacc0bde754e8fb0ac0aaf8c65e8f2f767086
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ef5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF5 16748 bytes
SHA-256: af1e671061886499d36d9c59713454fa609c7f609ab776ddbab4e8d0db2b585a