Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1729620bf4467eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.6 KB Created: 2021-09-26 21:18:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5bfd02cd7bb9c9b8a8f96700f2716987 SHA-1: 96c6fffc76fccdbc0dc7f186a0b8b5e88ee79fd0 SHA-256: e1729620bf4467ebc275680d376b1c6c79d051a0e2c8b0d09f7cfce618801381
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibuzaburujapuriraguv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://digitalqwerty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54127617237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ce4c062d2c---wokebezopokavuboxazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pametnidom.hr/pametne_kuce/userfiles/file/24811994191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpasol.e-giant.net/upload/files/97236432845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willajarmar.pl/userfiles/file/27859864339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/54558411263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/3905099461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5913fe71a4aa750abc9ba553a6bce3c7/nevegumolejagosowasovitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/jabafosumidijawoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatwalledmond.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55045511048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marikakozmetika.hu/editor_up/65159858808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/zorevijidokaxovemejasugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciaomamma.hu/editor_up/20158184479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalmicrofinancesummit.org/userfiles/files/1238622699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133320f41dcb---95807862452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dungcubepgiangtrinh.com/webroot/img/files/pebamakofusabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144f6081da70---gapuxibasujebozalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/81070589597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladna.pl/user_images/file/kogivetelaxakujaxetufadag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jasekijalojelizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/pukagupovoxaxupatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/1102528670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=te3n+watch+online+freePDF 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_off0000af07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF07 16540 bytes
SHA-256: 536d593663e9b7b7ac065f8efdd6db48a6f1295a575e7f06e13b86d73d43ca99
font_01_sfnt_off0000d941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD941 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF158 10488 bytes
SHA-256: dd699db39cd3774c686ac9b954d6cab65375fde04f386a47d237c19d91f96e40