Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0a0dc8307e876eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:48:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: cf0ef46863a60fcd0c5b2d16320fb9c4 SHA-1: 90190eba931a27baaaf5613041480ab9c1b4ee68 SHA-256: e0a0dc8307e876ebb68f6c6df468142188bcf099d63174bd75ed98d301020262
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the use of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further support the link farm and potential redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://divyabodhanam.org/userfiles/file/didewegozodikisogizafolo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93040061167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/zujobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/35088898077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63944635844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611402d73e1a7---19387619570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desertofohio.net/clients/4/43/43f38f6e2239b09326489e1ba67fa1b6/File/8541847556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lon0eg7qevi9jam4ivfn931ue4/53052399171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalyanestate.com/userfiles/file/damozoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16242626033046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/rizizinolagidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14dcfee5580848f0a73d13149ef13b46/49357389482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c971e68be47---pokevekeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/74247856537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/sivezikejezuvuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad93940897b---50473348832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22ad14efcca25ad35fd2ed984965686c/16645636570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://btc-ltd.com/upload/file/12153898960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23g74kriodb0aa81dlu3hobtpp/15473940154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38dc07bc03e1aa4604a304429f7f3f7e/nabijilemirujasutibasaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdf1ab3beb---siwekojomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lalitas-thaimassage-spa.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794b45ee7d0---jakaguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zulfugar.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bc00a3f6ee---90238500106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6968559ab411bc711209f7c2258b7dcd/sunemanuvefed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=jersey+boys+i+love+you+babyPDF 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_off0000eb14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB14 18580 bytes
SHA-256: 490f37634dcd4b7d35690da969b916dffe9b283f265acd153ab69dcd0053391d
font_01_sfnt_off00011bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133F4 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 6b7abdc70df2ab569b7d661d832af55f5b36d2b0ab65cecc740185fff34b0f01