Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0989e3449928ff5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 12:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: f51d2243a27f80d4f5e347a22f2920e2 SHA-1: 50435e906679ba3a491d5ca5c9fb51cf31195136 SHA-256: e0989e3449928ff5668468fe31bcff1391156a7b5d5a68fbb698cfa98273bd79
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its true malicious intent. The primary function appears to be directing users to external, potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d52770163f5877bc6567e0cf2f12d1ba/39235479243.pdf
    • http://matstravel.ru/userfiles/file/pukabaxowaj.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13b93dcb95f4049304e83cd198ef344f/71230328579.pdf
    • http://vnplastic.net/upload/files/memanuxuvadunasonobexozit.pdf
    • http://remont-etalon.ru/upload/files/gesasovukuxazozava.pdf
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/wedezodezepofogedolal.pdf
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077a91c50de5---ramagenamor.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e9349318a2---36102297369.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qih6cmjprf1emv1gq1qdjch9s6/74684571763.pdf
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972a8c9e6c4---69695769368.pdf
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e59d9e974a4b58c5d2d3a7d88e46b000/43706155202.pdf
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/ladojenedigejefijeb.pdf
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a15d5c139e4---sugikakobitokisu.pdf
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/kanezafexisomalo.pdf
    • http://vistobrasil.net/uploads/file/21140995374.pdf
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a418f0750e09b3e0cbd0aa0be4c3fda1/96541178287.pdf
    • http://batiment-tunisie.com/userfiles/file/6341565480.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29qfuqiobcaelm7b0tcugl6oj1/8190308868.pdf
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/91738221670.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160866d042f3ab---sepemipes.pdf
    • https://earthideasawnings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3af98a09c---kabijofe.pdf
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/sovagoliriwodiramufozaze.pdf
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e950eee97d---rejizaxoxixox.pdf
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/bewokixuwavofapi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=data+collection+examples+in+quantitative+research
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00011061.bin
e21c8656b652b712516161fc73dbef3d81137770bbc630c129d0d43295be7fb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11061 17640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00013ec1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13EC1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000156d8.bin
7465dbb70f8bbad77eff253da693df1348e2c2b5ecf78d8a9d5eb80fa964f61d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x156D8 11056 bytes