Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e119b5329dd393e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:10:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 87be4662dfac7004bb7b9e1e15c9d33a SHA-1: 166dff2511de9c02319b13b3cb4e4c64cf1ac6c7 SHA-256: e119b5329dd393e9b19f42209d2dd9d3660df1cd4cee509b9d53d5f258ed102b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely for phishing or SEO poisoning. The embedded URLs and the structure of the document strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://benetalent.com/upload/files/fubutoselujuke.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078c754e44d2---poxepuvibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc1b6f69551---pafanijuzikewalopinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moto-trend.cz/public/files/fck/file/81753959313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/91941258753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ov20l12k455utjtuuno9kjnqd/27941072202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/fabetepepuwovutasidebuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umutisi.com/umut/upload/files/9711862856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinhlytailieuluutru.com/media/ftp/file/12445307653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/78643962386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vs8pg0e2d26qtlm5l6kie6be4o/94183401555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobergamaschi.it/userfiles/files/loxejifoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents//files/letivoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/xeviwugazar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/3497761336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/norigoregenepusulutotano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imapbook.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/rogurite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf81a125c3---56531082035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c104b22588d---64252879867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lcxcable.com/fckeditor/file/rowijowonefuwupuvofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jetzterstrecht.hamburg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0aou52o86hnogs5ncn1fkhbl7/tafosaxununezavinuluzofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609250c292442---77440050941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njchemland.com/upload/files/30181309670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=blood+sampling+procedure+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_off0000d568.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD568 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7A 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 793e6b49ff39530e63735bcedf68e9ef6290c05069ad7a2eea0856ec5d1b6361
font_02_sfnt_off00011c82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C82 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 86822e3ca3ca02d854c5ecb2c1672828e7f6ba15cb5e5c521b810fc455100487

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