Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0fe42e2ed460eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-25 03:21:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 685a7f7c57023c453fccc8744825fcd0 SHA-1: 63543cdd46ce9cd65b8a71531e8c0ce23ab5be56 SHA-256: e0fe42e2ed460eaee98f0fd32ed51dfd3f47f03f0281fe02a2370c1a5d22ddca
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest the document's purpose is to lure users into clicking links that lead to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://cateringkieuan.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wojinozorero.pdf
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/tolupijizawitamaga.pdf
    • https://speculatio.in/userfiles/file/dulezuwilukoxotafovunoli.pdf
    • http://wsm.hk/images/uploadfiles/file/xobazototokunapog.pdf
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/sigumunitife.pdf
    • https://gimenezricarte-deltabogados.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zebiwubuwirapebotuzuz.pdf
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/37063599465.pdf
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/rirapememawebesikol.pdf
    • https://sharpconsulting.us/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20328905454.pdf
    • http://tubemakingmachine.com/uploadfile/files/gitasaxalitogikegevegepe.pdf
    • http://stonebreaker.at/wukuwavipe.pdf
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/saredagegud.pdf
    • http://tcihk.com/userfiles/ponopabolodoterixiw.pdf
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28604c0f16f02aa3e94809b4998a9d58/nulideli.pdf
    • https://charteriraq.ir/basefile/charteriraqir/files/86084955674.pdf
    • https://fminterativa.net/cms/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5055355283.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135082c9e8cb---zadeviviwatuwu.pdf
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cddba1aa8a5a17272fed5648e0318bdb/71658619494.pdf
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141eb2a84a8c---movupexuroso.pdf
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132a7c4c7bd9---67314100041.pdf
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368f0b97456---89271816654.pdf
    • https://uudanbury.life/files/file/67486969226.pdf
    • https://ateneoarbonaida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413928ccf61---58356916477.pdf
    • http://interstroy96.ru/uploads/files/50673598248.pdf
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c0181788d---jepajototewozibekugol.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=complete+combustion+of+c2h2
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c0a4.bin
02ca59c66a90d3ddd01ad410a6a0ec94aa3bb8c194c5e40e65b2f8d32fc797ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0A4 10876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d95c.bin
663f4133eecad492c94e928311a7b6d525c302f9f83d69fa95e96e26ba889c41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD95C 19272 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b28.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B28 16792 bytes