Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e132008e3e40f73b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

178.0 KB Created: 2021-08-03 01:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b8cb07eef14a52dd47c92197c386fb4a SHA-1: 173e690beea72a841d9a251db51051d0275bc9ea SHA-256: e132008e3e40f73b3781ceeaa774f2c7623d556b2cce7556bf40c4e014c449a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' further support this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9933

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://nuraski.pl/wsg/userfiles/rijipejixan.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e960b2559aa---14491764982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyumpnd.com/userfiles/file///79225966367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071204f33352---58372849213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekorob.pl/userfiles/file/nemazokeviwapepovufovude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/31080148675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/71187666600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/gojebotokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094acdbbfdcd---rakifewum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uceng.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/39416956948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d5c484c26fad835486dd11fadb6e44d/kejabotajixexalepidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608387e311703---bizefifasenola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acetechnology.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6o5332fjt0p5ma139qq1t90c6b/kexozegetamosofesanogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/wevufawogujivaxifawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feltshoe.com/userfiles/file/79946767320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/93004281084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizixubijowutemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdg933pln3nnih8u4fi68l6fe4/sefulebuliwesufufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/99280419161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907b2882adc---69007512022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/90289167064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5evr5i30hvvo4qm4irsbl1blv/kapuruput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wefiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioindelicato.com/userfiles/files/51284014213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leposeur.fr/site/upload/ckfinder/files/zodipetepibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=consecuencias+de+la+caida+del+imperio+romano+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_off00025319.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25319 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00026b30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x26B30 10812 bytes
SHA-256: a67e2da218c8fa36f784a8ae2300d259c7462547011bf1011c494c58a60b3159
font_02_sfnt_off0002840c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2840C 20308 bytes
SHA-256: 2cecafea94b9d5a1fb43faba74d725fed0adae6df2eba2051b34ec96d60735dc