Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ad24813e614053…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-10 13:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2f5a55fc6064fe023618d617d765aee0 SHA-1: aad081d809ef38cecc65b69e1e3baa10f577471b SHA-256: e0ad24813e614053ce2bf01bf7b987888e0563f136d7cd01fae498de38050d18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous external URIs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic strongly support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=where%27s+my+refund+cycle+chart PDF link annotation
    • http://beastyenergy.com/userfiles/file/ridodaruroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607214be3fd13---30074389008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8al1rm5c6ne5u5ku4525eoebti/murowivolupuluvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794f7983819---64676597584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60250bf371554dae56957d9340162fe/14493468737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/ketezebosofirukipex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/33377328624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///2021730235411360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaef48e1f0b---rubenuzeburoxejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sexozedelafosilikojarak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crmrealty360degree.in/userfiles/file/binowoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/bupaforadijuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kd-council.com/upfile/files/26157070237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c32503eb30---kolamafamuganenakole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratoriodiprogettazione-ve.it/userfiles/files/nozaxitidagejagiregij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/najorijimemetomefaduribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fcfb2bbda7632b5dfbb8f7ed69eab6b/mudajoruritijafotaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e902762f1---popuxabizonope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000cfdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7EE 17020 bytes
SHA-256: c071923a62bed8833f03472197f3f4174ba9b754aea47dfc2d1cd780c2e87e0f
font_02_sfnt_off000113da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DA 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 1c89d1666a8314c7cd81c67ca83f726562757edd1bbc32e7301dad379efb5ed5