Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0e2e30058ba73bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 17:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 13d97784921dd0efc0fcd11e1351063f SHA-1: 3484b0e2c655ccf7dc2a113819f6138e4002a89d SHA-256: e0e2e30058ba73bd861801719c03320c812b06f5f2a236f7c23b5e5873f03ff2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the embedded URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/88173690048.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alllegaltask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0janidfmd11e2lgsaa6p22pdd4/16608847950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71329542199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b562db77714---bojaberamuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2712b334fbf02a5c99f72c091c4b1258/93281945156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/28760909020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rabifenisivanabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/68317995313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6b0774a03---mapemuger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majoriscambio.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a69c205259b---76835442483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efuegypt.org/userfiles/file/fuzaromomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/wiwirazazosanalapivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dcaf62daaf9---5546646697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d92331bc35---58402483232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consurs.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tamaxoxidosotatazekuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ju594c35p0pdjfamh8e7dnrhd4/babisuxur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1498e131f---nuwinesazafalowetaluvemis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/89032323854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079abe025fab---bisavatusuzejusidekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609821ec64c26---2621839431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--interpeas-r6a.es/upload/files/74175128947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=pasal+1365+kuhperdata+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_off0000db00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB00 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 6d740e50b77d4f9b6fb482093d4cfb06ae324e1bd7e19cb79aa4cc0832b840c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ce9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CE9 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 6b3b0d9dc16eac78c196d5d49deeda2171bdc91bdbe64a4261e64ed834947806