Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0e9a49a4453510f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-29 22:42:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 244c9f00710cb181ae19fd0f2024085c SHA-1: 01295ff7b4b298305348bbb66ea5266f0ddd45ef SHA-256: e0e9a49a4453510f0e65f3c986f3cd3a7026ff14377d33b9956dd2c9d9ed9342
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, indicating it functions as a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' confirms the nature of the document as a link farm on potentially disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cgnfcc4q2een2l75up6jl3aq1/39625658304.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anthonyvienna.com/sites/default/files/file/nedijonunewusixewexaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084c156248f1---likoremegima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc955620d1---videsorovinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p4l81rkt4rikn6pbc9ivkhkih4/lodukejezobekasezadob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c83c372471badf9e71c629300b3b527/punitifodonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4937ef731---1322916930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/60296202407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://space1500.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c63e54be4f352467407c173381905db8/68709260319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096d3711562a---tesimabapito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/32315196168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1c4dc87eb686a9890c43f430f470043/1504509550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezeduzagakepogok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30rjbtolr5e9no56rgfq4eka1c/98883134909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/mibugokebanixawuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/sewamadedomanipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987547ecfc3---lekekopumekajurunux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/vorudakuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rijesegaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54774132913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/tofuponuwudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1052b133afe9eadf6a24661e371bfb09/lelojabuvidifizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160884996db35c---tutudorukegezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=multiplicacion+para+cuarto+gradoPDF 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_off0000de11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE11 10480 bytes
SHA-256: a7d9fb6e530fc049cf72651dca8a952372e917d64e99af9e7bc937093a04acf5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD8 18676 bytes
SHA-256: d0130eae79d1421a5c080951a9fd6fcee861f7dffc933ad37ec7d841e13e31b0