Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0c1587ce9e35780…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 18:07:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a3a3ab463cc5a7dbc4955686279a15fe SHA-1: 14fdec284bbd54c8d4e92280b6f9242604e6e33f SHA-256: e0c1587ce9e357806b71450c07ec9ce23eddfc0ae4176d11a4746dde607e9e67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of link farms and the overall detection profile indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://goref.ru/files/file/43441854043.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825693d8fbc---tupemulubazovizuvuzalife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cigdlkm62pm5lu36lj9j9hkggh/67177538427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zav-mito.si/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764409a76d0---vogopaxegonebuvezoruro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/49647737782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5j31riifb1u338bd1g9tg0mote/xogaxigizekunenepadivaros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdddf6733d7---86975546242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/97122796750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/gebewunilipurasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dec80afd1f---dakipipulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tamilsaga.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/balalixuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b997b1c2b78---kagixikabamaviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/tizupunekaluwitujamixali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08833893d38574f825652b5389e88fe7/puwadus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanmore.com/userData/board/file/disekosugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dancedynamicsla.com/clients/38740/File/14602958045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/sazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b241b5860a70c45054957dbfe3bb549/48042727691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ae1d189b93c1e97f457f9c10c14ff12/89318012281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a050cf0443a---7141131056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.mobi/sites/default/files/file/xusurud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9681a05884---bajopapumatobanopudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--knstlerische-biografie-arbeit-lbd.ch/userfiles/files/soxobesikisegexewam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runningrhinelanderrabbitry.com/clients/875187/File/45508901305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansonseatery.com/uploads/files/lulajudezosolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=maharashtra+government+holiday+list+2019+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_off0000bb0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d324.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD324 11580 bytes
SHA-256: 8d089773e05e0e2a22ac51234f2bd85bfb2e3c14be82eb9a65aa1df7468a4a78
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE50 15240 bytes
SHA-256: b7d46bfa5f59d321bad20b18496add21c67022c984ddb02ab53d8bae730f0ce5