Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0bafbd1ce267ecd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:38:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 66ced2186aa06d7ca4d9144d24bf740b SHA-1: af1aca12e8a40aa67978f546c48d15d82e8acc9c SHA-256: e0bafbd1ce267ecdc8c07ef1e74a0f55d382102f11eb3197b2dbbe6624df48f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, likely to host further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this analysis.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=balanced+and+unbalanced+forces+worksheet+middle+school
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/lasaxataz.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429153617525331.pdf
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/35939656164.pdf
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/16397144004.pdf
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca7f4b7e13---fetowavebolegudosori.pdf
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiduzizulazog.pdf
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu3tjsb2kni1on41gm7gbhkci1/5141909332.pdf
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/dawenavid.pdf
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d08938acfb4---gijikefusatin.pdf
    • http://metabolit.ru/files/file/1818098288.pdf
    • http://mabo-meccanica.eu/userfiles/files/41010833042.pdf
    • http://libron.pl/fckupload/assets/file/41877361895.pdf
    • http://rencontres-icare.org/userfiles/file/80731554312.pdf
    • https://www.serwkom.pl/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52782919382.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c415fbc8665---69657019823.pdf
    • https://nisahanpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xewazisuvadilerutu.pdf
    • http://www.pvvc.cz/files/fubenexixonogenuga.pdf
    • https://transpack-krumbach.de/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/78401312223.pdf
    • https://tierlistei.ch/downloads/95181173092.pdf
    • http://tsrmvolontari.it/userfiles/files/58823408735.pdf
    • https://cuacuonbentre.com/upload/files/47224738846.pdf
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc3e68df4a---17741241089.pdf
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/jedutilifuxabopesiweg.pdf
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sabewubomofawojase.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d374ea675938936b93b9e5ce0febb91c/zozipewavopetigala.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd97.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD97 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5a9.bin
e9c5831ea479097a92c08b4afc22ef1bb18ad2bd6538242a72f758a158377784
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5A9 15288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc9a.bin
890900fc86f512d16e1dcc4121143c87fdb5e7b64cbf02445f609289ae5e228f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9A 11212 bytes