Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0b6d97f1c98ac39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:17:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 574281a1edbe6845d63b3d2524276f2c SHA-1: 58c5d9baec22eb399ad765cf7ec6ca3537e4a683 SHA-256: e0b6d97f1c98ac3959a75c278fb356941fae80931952d983d82ce295873f7cf1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a significant number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates the document is designed as a link farm, likely to direct users to malicious content or phishing sites. The embedded JavaScript is a common method for initiating malicious actions within PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/zobukigebugof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://citronixdeflection.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/87912604074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://due.pt/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegezidisijef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd63f76f2c0b250ebe981a7564ec34d1/92646981058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22c20d9805e698fa140377e5458fae6a/8965229716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/disipunesikavabubogodupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xekazuverotovanaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadsoda.com/UserFiles/File/38758124650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c30d1e01c8c45f91d9230219edaa400d/xituj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numere-mopede.ro/mm/file/gagolevofiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airsoft1.ro/files/file/vetolinodalez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/safidakulera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verynailscm.com/user_img/file/bamafasojatoxiwivusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72ef54ad63---74730332590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/438529685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f48sft10c6pl5kaoc5h520essr/lojat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d115c339d1f88459d4b65c7bff154259/76598162597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farnostbobrova.cz/ckfinder/files/79048605812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092490a2445a---zazajuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbe72846b44acf6f2cee34669ba52535/66821808902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c519afb59---juborisoteguwaxewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harryreichert.de/uploaded_pics/News/file/mamij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e8f33148510---muzifuwedemuwanaxibumiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71c008f01bfc51771f3eecff13722a2b/27314172830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=employment+in+agriculture+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_off0000dba3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B5 16924 bytes
SHA-256: 53cd08325469f62ee76d32693baf9d85ac38e0c53794db001a34a732ca5a47c4
font_02_sfnt_off00011f79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F79 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 2fc48b0de61949d526a5b8bd69f258042b9714eef86ca821163d2fe291877625