Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0e1b30405d965aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 03:46:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 682155265ee03e375c57a06aac9308ee SHA-1: bde13e92da5e7b8623c75c66c71a15b877837dbc SHA-256: e0e1b30405d965aad03dad9ee70790a2986457d3ddcf885585188bcb5b92a9f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=state+of+matter+at+room+temperature PDF link annotation
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/56585863619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/81971288891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8641d82b85---17198251977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6867e9dc2cb8bcb40910add1b15a8cb/26644899224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f314dc1e60---87517051985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160accde9a8c0c---pedugibomedapamebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4a7292c52a94eb6167fc795de6c1078/mosejolelaxisaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0e8ad2693---28665570631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6cf5064110---59385369460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbpartner.cz/userfiles/file/41416218645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apcmagon.com/userfiles/tataji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acfeaf3ed39---wewavapebekefivibirudarad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xixoxifodojumitovaraxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9524e173cd---90514820333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asd3tkrq90qfl5tt8ibsl68a3v/laxorenadoxeriromisiduzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607295294737e---totewulijewomixuzezupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vifojazetumaletiwepofixek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e27f2ff1f---nezuduzikarexajosumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85u28aa410dbgogr9rqq2cb4r0/58159137191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609860cea2d54---45879931591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/siroxogusesobixuwewavuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slhs1958.com/clients/18590/File/48698815823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilturismoinitalia.it/userfiles/files/zerori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.es/upload/11169521799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e1e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1E0 16476 bytes
SHA-256: 3e5acf434971382ffbdfad2ec3d8ec1fc09a7069f7de6cfa26c9c024c3d10d7c
font_01_sfnt_off00010ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CCD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000124e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124E4 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 30a95c9f941f5c0741610b023b60997b46479e295d67fed3e9965eb6710ac5ae