Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0a8cd654cec31fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 07:45:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e230a40e16cdeebf18bfa66cd062a9a5 SHA-1: 6a8ac2a3119c8fee8db89469b58e0269327b4bc2 SHA-256: e0a8cd654cec31fb0683ba3ffb5805ace54f21ba3cfb0642f00b96b19196289f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://macabrey-luthier.fr/data/Files/zasuwuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109060128413230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://davaocarrental.com/images/file/21501921871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-trec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo2k7bg2fvak8rncn6su652ut8/5272559846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/12576929842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/71871774846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/desuvezapomonarurugevala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifap.it/images/file/ketuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd257bcf5a1a3cd8daef6de9e41919a2/16111005971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-tuong.com/media/ckfinder/files/robipirizagasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/belexerag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promoform.coreform.it/uploads/file/59628259437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414d12dd780---terokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plkorea77.com/ckupload/files/zemuwidisomebilexosedig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asoriofrio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xurarirojelisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwstationery.com/files/file/29788119970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109102018273761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/kafofunajiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/58494158732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oteliapelsin.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakitomosabelewuwewegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcgsgeds.friendship-match.com/upload/files/80993770512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getwealthythisyear.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48002810989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahl2005.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwujomefubadifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipayon.com/root/FCKeditor/file/74015302958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salman-group.com/userfiles/file/jabokuxasifomaluvebarona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+data+science+with+r+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_off0000f4eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D02 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 4c5e75003694dc445d624488e04547965146cf801521c383c3762919791403fc
font_02_sfnt_off000125ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125EF 19000 bytes
SHA-256: ddcc0212cef553743a0ebe67d26ade84cba17e5350c26bf1e24d9815cce21e54

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