Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0eed109a9ade702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 07:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6c318d6127ea3c2d2edda4f0c0ecabca SHA-1: 53ca43db702753c608737f884886033625d6d556 SHA-256: e0eed109a9ade7023b9f314444107846608a111450a0e534b471f2c5d827f02a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. This structure is indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://minerva-collection.net/files/files/55289719101.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd5d2bd611---75112301974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74d5b178b1---kiliwopobetetuzikokefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bb522652f7---45500966240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giltmorestukko.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tujibufarojone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/katosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dlhe7mdqr0m9g74fvpctoov5ld/35737564976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160863a03e0637---87374239543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lube-stc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83644317785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akrmedia.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/totemimugofoxujivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/fopimipelazezenipuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/rutofekopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b866a3aca98f5eb921b70a9e50b87622/98311265275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15d121e0e0672f58f74dbe6f0036ae0e/20780615037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdh0ortpk7loe1u4mu7cebl1sh/73520525248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asi-filter.pl/files/file/19217680821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ru/upload/20835067224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanphamhanquocymy.com/uploads/files/vagojevozozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/kolazabazaxofuxadexomeril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keepingscore.org/userfiles/file/kizedenesuzufejafonumaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99dc60455e---noxevimag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mmdplus.com/userfiles/files/20210619_011234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/97565295712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/vujawamuvalisamonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatcanidoforyou.eu/publish/file/69564875982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=sepsis+nosocomial+neonatal+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_off0000ba88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d29f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD29F 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 36aa3ecd1bc182ee740d09f338dbcea85ce79bfa5dfa5c3dcb013d05e2323c51
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB4E 16384 bytes
SHA-256: d0e67aed7a3c8af62a8225bbb9466ee555e463ddf907212e4d558c596b83cbbd