Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0b2ad7cce223ace…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 20:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-07
MD5: 5e3ec9d0e8936dab4d5ae2edfebc6ae7 SHA-1: 3b3f89559a06152b8cc1d00bcc0a07daad539ff8 SHA-256: e0b2ad7cce223acea1f4b4d16a877bd19936802fdc12742d2b53d55f756ace15
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=graph+paper+pdf+1+cm PDF link annotation
    • http://beergolfers.com/blog/images/file/86132071714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-noah.com/uploadfile/file/buruwenutonorefonaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agot.pl/upload/file/82704410071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090916043180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motelandratecuci.ro/userfiles/file/47821794534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/81872219238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79486cf789a092292e0872452709c9da/11902698360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c0e6ea8d7---xuvuwiwefovemalexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/gewebexemefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electric-kernbichler.at/97691770366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargo-box.com/uploads/files/5193846756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/99347908896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-tlg.com/files/file/borak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moonlightmontessori.com/upload/files/7669381812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenetpost.mn/userfiles/files/lakesotavosexukijetixufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makrostal.pl/user_images/file/91313788471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consol.hu/images/uploadedimages/file/24586597809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujavietnam.com/images/Download/3024340804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakineshr.az/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dunokebuvuzuxaweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/92779962751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fca3483bf---6683437037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scea.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81915343785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a224c571b3fcb96f961e9a1b75f38a5/tonibuzekigatemuk.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_off0000cecc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCECC 10348 bytes
SHA-256: d70d814a29871217874e360a20ac77e0115e88e97ec67d6e01413e9042570c33
font_01_sfnt_off0000e62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE62C 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 55be1c474963f4499faf6cb49f45ddb860370ef3a1edcdac6d662f41a3e668c3
font_02_sfnt_off0001113b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1