Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0ff2780400c57bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 08:10:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: e28c10234e4940ff02876d2bf0b8711a SHA-1: 7e574a413df89b8e91779f461d7f9583b5542aab SHA-256: e0ff2780400c57bd3927349d97e4134b8fe5d9a3c13a379f85aaff7e633a7f81
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm directing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://hmanagement.net/userfiles/file/zipefujezepoboligufabenun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6b475055a6b7ef040215cafed14e42a/73278427183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dc9ed09c9---wujarusada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodsfamilypride.org/clients/2/2c/2c83419adcf4927d74d3defe18342386/File/82733159185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/sutinozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/ziwelinedorojegudetuwise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/xuvunuvujomalajumufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspointpartners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/falurojaduzigulitivuvagel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jessicarossitto.com/clients/7/7c/7c16b8c799dae9ffcd1258f31d6ff645/File/97644621759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4eb17db425---36036408196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23707442703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3suntech.com/UploadFile/file/20210820072407003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zahnersatz.pl/userfiles/files/66288247695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesmclassof68cheyennewy.com/clients/82478/File/95308351354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lolowunurorunumudilipiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093aa7241e92---93564449277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimara-bg.com/userfiles/file/risexabezeruwugolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t3edk9it0hqceafp8a7na07l56/komazenabezajozorozawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c256b7cf5204e890995bb16dbd094814/40222670210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latrinquette.com/upload/editor/file/pisakevero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noahjohnsonsark.com/clients/e/ef/ef24418f2336b9480f3353ee42fa3f58/File/60407719106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemarko.com/userfiles/file/85270076741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68adb4872e888a99a95ed176af7902c6/28735482794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dodomacnosti.net/data/file/kixut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=master+pdf+editor+linux+installPDF 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_off0000e0ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EE 18028 bytes
SHA-256: 08c7b82c6aaad14c22df8d5e8b273994e01519e2e5391a1a6864d55737c9a0e6
font_01_sfnt_off00011024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11024 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 240ab662bbb6c9d6f7292868ee92cc862898495c0c2560c18e92d2441ac74e3a
font_02_sfnt_off000128c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1