Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0940f80a92c3746…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 04:55:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1e1a7b3764d4632ba80bbc8d64c476ca SHA-1: 787e1c4d1f8a635932fc883b5d61eece82c8149c SHA-256: e0940f80a92c37463213e07ffbb5e3b17871285a048448604f7e5d766b2d1d8e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The heuristic 'SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE' suggests the document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service to trick the user. Numerous URLs are present, many hosted on what appear to be compromised or disposable domains, likely serving as lures or redirects to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://abpaluso.com/upload/file/18601708536.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5204159a2067c2ea2c8108a284b5871/72938701387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triosms.com/userfiles/file/39111832742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebooksweb.net/files/file/pedokivuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coclub-us.com/ckupload/files/21316548177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb7637f12ed---61705324511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a89e3ac9686---gidugorufolugiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btfa.tw/upload/files/59353895275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731de96be7a---71103436828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrrc.heart.net.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/17492421875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plusbateria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8e0fca94da---tugofarilareja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803e7e03cee---40378986551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8a20ddfc18---98005154550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fjc24t3mbnebt6rrsc8eona5q/madivufisoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5eb7acc74c9f1867cb876c0da91892c/33598541542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/resetubuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/nuvomowejuzivuxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf3056beda---dulinife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/67712658498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e024c7db82---61555679686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210530_F79415E9903D43B5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c53c110e316447cb7c7086cb082f5646/53713319773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archimax.ch/dynamic-images/cms/file/sujok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/negom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/59873627626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=outlook+out+365PDF 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_off0000e699.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE699 10032 bytes
SHA-256: ee286c4aae71a8ce318341fde9d5c2f5a6253f78f2babf22bbd41ff444580223
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011531.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11531 16784 bytes
SHA-256: 3f6473f9a6adb51c979e7ce161f0529950b365c87d1f352ae9c621f1b8a5e28c