Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0fe183bcbbf8764…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 15:30:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7ab4ebb78d157e3fb7f790f53128abb2 SHA-1: 4ecf1a800ece3613ce01e6cf9bf5774ac8acf182 SHA-256: e0fe183bcbbf87649bde9aab30b816a62a4a0b05987ddbd038af27f0c779939b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lure users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern is the use of malicious links within the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://mmszke.hu/files/file/seropukoxaw.pdf
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/672a8012a31020bca9de0e2a8cb7962b/73751024865.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d62a13816be---62874582658.pdf
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5cba9e0a8b---75873248617.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da11f85fdc---79281466152.pdf
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/simuburufojo.pdf
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084401d8563f---85007125305.pdf
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3d9057f2f7b8b1b0617d763ed1c338/jogosulifigi.pdf
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/tozivovegepudedob.pdf
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/56588856230.pdf
    • https://senfina.top/uploads/files/zegodavubuxibi.pdf
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3eeb90e72---33709977209.pdf
    • http://skyfestival.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29328631700.pdf
    • https://thetitangroup.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3bffc488d75003d55ea0f1ec90d84d3e/vesowusu.pdf
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20bcedef2fa0008d816b806978cc1065/nirapi.pdf
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607306cd17252---tobatoxe.pdf
    • http://technoculture.cz/admin/upload/file/88705747969.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae9a69d1482---8418292066.pdf
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090f7d449ca8---59183451312.pdf
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/12092245559.pdf
    • http://chnli.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/73882471249.pdf
    • https://pui-vital.ro/msg_media/file/juxevagi.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc631c28935---28524213112.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=area+maths+meaning
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6cc.bin
8bfc5e2f6383778b4716e60c732a7e5228106b692ca52c1f6b3c0b2892049825
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6CC 16060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbdb.bin
d79f7fb5269d053a29646d574a18002df74db2d50c28c76a367b9deb6acd2e43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDB 18756 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012d34.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D34 16792 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001454b.bin
cade268a2079da13c4a6078d13ee70c5b0ad188eda16c707012d867133e7cc60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1454B 10368 bytes