Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0d1fa20ac08383f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-06-19 12:58:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: bac169eb46685d28b63270fcf98610b7 SHA-1: 0649ad7281c79703cabc7008bd8d79875473a800 SHA-256: e0d1fa20ac08383fad8bfaa8f2cb7f688636dee6c536910ed4af7e6c8b0bef18
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a link farm designed to mimic search results for MP3 downloads, likely as a lure. Several heuristics indicate the document is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/3450646204.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba551d39269---75392189578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c8cf645780f3d00d0fee9fb4edc6ea6/guxoririlabizajavefibuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861dec0f2fc---86710358636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/192c1b436930d9e1f53582c3402dd7fa/lawopezigufoworevolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45c56d0fd09fa14063589fb8f88d0a47/fanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acac295b3fa---96447161211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ebf18c6d89---bisozexuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/buzixigezijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/gatokolafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0507f2dead---ludagegigivetojisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myphi.biz/nbloom/fckuploads/file/99744369805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1884d78e99---74391555218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfce377e02761b42e86847fb9a9ba029/tebogigaxuzosamawajiwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5fe1a7c119a09236918e1ff0c1c5d6c/goniwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f26ccc1782---91764060386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reinforcingourheritage.com/clients/0/08/0860c2a235168fe7e4a745c824023bdd/File/68946034589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biotledlight.com/userfiles/file/%5C/53742474302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=enna+sona+mp3+songs+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000debe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBE 4940 bytes
SHA-256: eed8cf583b4767fab37fbd71057b5761c15e5398e3e1e85c484891b2d74fd07c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF78 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 7af6b800ee1b411bb0a5fdceb216514d103ee8aef55562d088b1ac1122896802
font_02_sfnt_off0001145c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1145C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f