Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e106713e6fe63c91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-10-03 01:35:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 6af49ced6e4d7278ec33c7082dec3e5d SHA-1: a49d24a3ce7723f15c7b2b01178bbe17056a4c88 SHA-256: e106713e6fe63c91c09ca9af849f1ebda1eae515f2d48491abb7087ea16d315e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and link farm structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to compromised websites for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+gate+study+material+for+mechanical+engineering+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614765df544d6---27812088346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/megezerekunalox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/061465ac991552f9912f1caa561d2c59/78191022385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marathon-gexin.com/Uploadfiles/files/sovometudomafufonunosete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antichigelsi.it/userfiles/files/judaruxilexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/45615833881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isleo.com/i_photos/file/sotawomuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/53914699684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/58316372930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksiclub.org/projects/achievemore/admin/upload/fckImages/file/feduvovidupemorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trufeel.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/uploadfile/files/53918549314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210904013411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.its-dph.cz/admin/fckeditor/editor/userfiles/file/guxuxininoxudotakinosokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuilchem.com/userData/board/file/58787294426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nudow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubselectionvoyages.net/images/file/31636794592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saluteebenesseresas.it/userfiles/files/26195288195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontogepszerviz.hu/editor_up/fixesototedodapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcompany.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/95509715735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildongwire.com/userfiles/file/guseruwalorenezolarijixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615307a38a835---92397684579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34b4afaa2cfc6c9846be40f5d6538e20/17463792308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/popujuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c00f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC00F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD826 11256 bytes
SHA-256: fed4e47acec5b17066b517904d6b3017c24b17487e60e7818c0d055e569995f7
font_02_sfnt_off0000f227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF227 19448 bytes
SHA-256: 3db450c9eec8a72c85cd4aba95d95a522e0055d1c158da7c5289d3b97da685ee