Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0cb8de62cca9f52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

103.8 KB Created: 2021-07-25 07:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f7ce29c17f6f625f0cb17876af24267b SHA-1: a1e70a40fbafad21859094d3a54a6050526c5920 SHA-256: e0cb8de62cca9f5244536f704fdfcc23ee78af349e9cfc444d31e141338e9dde
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98926626e7---28302750017.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81563d6d84c8b96f1f4c84f332653f25/15073398197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c22005ffad---22930401706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polskienarty.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/kukapazobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kvra3mt7icffnesr9ja45iqosu/46528863759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/96114113306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/635c805ec2fa185db95100f54edaa889/tigixatedaxuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchontherockuk.org/home/churchontherock1/public_html/userfiles/files/wovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/72695097550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/99140335161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artbynela.com/uploads/file/31471139245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womenscouncildallasarboretum.org/clients/85748/File/budisaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/bapipasamuditujeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/baruzudiledaxexikejemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/xixapasijosaxibisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609606336c3fd---naxibafaxesuzirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swissfun.tv/var/www/porn4me.ch/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33872782532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/94830917557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3d4f380704a22287772136380399fca/legukopiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-v-v.dk/userfiles/file/83827118752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/rujujato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i2idcqt6m94jpb7ql1rou7m1pc/90468467715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46611e4826---sopixudiwogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092a10faf14f---88888086750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lrhp4oqlajshdm57nnp55gf6f/vipijifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=north+and+south+elizabeth+gaskell+pdf+freePDF 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_off000131b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131B6 17364 bytes
SHA-256: a1d02fa977c80f6252620e7784ea9fad134bdc18d93fc4b045b2b5dadc7e4530
font_01_sfnt_off00015ea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15EA4 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 417610f5e8a490bb46e562dd7dfb91f83265ffbdab0d10ae973811ad50ecbf68
font_02_sfnt_off00017834.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17834 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1