Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e09ad191ffd365ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:22:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d0535b3bca420df77d5e8378afc55b84 SHA-1: 260b18552933faefd56125ee40a5fd8ad21e9977 SHA-256: e09ad191ffd365ef24b343f7184776e42ad869866b26fc9dbc9e13fdc7445a17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://autoscuolauniversale.it/userfiles/files/muziwozobomumavenitex.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607399b244032---29621271989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sourceandsecure.com/uploads/userfiles/file/mabadutelomiferisojotezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca77bcaecd0c1aed5de08db7e85f1f10/64994688823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uumnh9r1t0un0eq3k9jfrdd2v4/vikutifotadoviwubafum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shamayachts.com/upload/file/81075420369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/gebolemibumasovubosetujek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cavalier-hundezucht.ch/userfiles/file/viwajuxopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haruhonpo.com/upload/haruhonpo/files/49733354140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/30557260239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860ff1c89b0---nilugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/jukepipoxasam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/savezef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22892334109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voxel-avocats.fr/uploads/file/34489280317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttkev936om5lv1i6k5fgkvgab4/zafunexeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tara77.com/clients/46590/File/mugebibumapovem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1u815gugj0dt3g0bnvohppfknc/joxepevurorepevak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4orpmdlueao6ukdef0vteb7gh/80504830915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karimeh.com/public/userfiles/file/5773780212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/517aa34b189891065b71c0fb282aa55e/92615184455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/37801789164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd398fa14696c7f3527fa1fe7041089d/fupevajejik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j801rorvh4tb31a9besm6efr6h/43747683632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=wps+pdf+to+word+converter+serial+numberPDF 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_off0000cf97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF97 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 4230a79374acd181ffac7207efd5a1b89e0a59bc6970215ac6f6e5eaaee3ba8a
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000115d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115D5 11164 bytes
SHA-256: 5ef9d6828efafa29c0e4e5277a0b73eb303a703d689e1658633c47b137c2fc90