Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e13ef0aa9aed6024…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 22:50:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 50a56e1135c3211fa6421eaeef183314 SHA-1: da7bfc45f0cae84f8d24dcc94b6c8a192970a2c7 SHA-256: e13ef0aa9aed6024388b0ea7d4d75cb1d7e618e274cf962fa264fddcfb61b951
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a lure, potentially involving QR codes, to direct users to these external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/fisapewuviminituzazomataz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://weekendtripskolkata.com/userfiles/file/wibikerewanexogojasetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fn2k5dfb14q5gefkqnbcgitk0/75507865654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jerawodawujuxidefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://52963566.com/upload/file/202109060124310467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents/files/77376087283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zvezda-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexikalibejila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rl3ehdspbmrltq5lpgadr6g8j0/gorusiwonad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraswatishikshamandir.com/singhania/downloads/file/71696860779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bike-accessories.supersites.gr/content/ckfinder/files/51951485007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137fbf377244---binagiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlxzkj.com/uploads/file/022113426498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maternites-catholiques.org/ressource/site-image/files/12023597520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/famufenofixikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio3.com/contents/files/tijosaxafim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://educasters.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21427364009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://damosushipleasanthill.com/uploads/files/zaborojuwezas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-saty.cz/gais/image/file/90978584413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podolsk-kondicionery.ru/upload_picture/file/wikerageja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/90485875014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truonggiangcompany.com/userfiles/file/pasuvekonoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/xegikanamixipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16137b56d2390e---74463142785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rybczewice.pl/userfiles/file/muwotikupaxifumujezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincentianssjp.com/userfiles/file/34894389408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+love+book+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f0bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0BF 17424 bytes
SHA-256: b78e46636c572478df941935451819fc98e11481632ba77c547270cf68f312b9
font_01_sfnt_off00011dcd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DCD 10588 bytes
SHA-256: d180414a9dd44f4ab47d73982ba51267d22bcfe0244762302cb04a3543adf25f
font_02_sfnt_off000135a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1