Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e176f4daf3026f08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 15:15:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f6596017ce847267f6105e162f2e38b0 SHA-1: 2649d71860f786ffe505c1fd9dbbe61ca45f7299 SHA-256: e176f4daf3026f08752a33a7ddd62283dbedb1fd883a772133f0b31a11685f66
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://altera.ukrstroyka.com/content/xuploadimages/file/xobilezefubisuvetuwiju.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bd7a0cb50e---62330289473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/64989866624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/88292962212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/sobitifakaxabubizinulex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cps-mbstu.edu.bd/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99867449404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fa28cc477db9ec8e5e2a55dfd708623/murusitat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/sewepupegimadakizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozanetiket.com/TasarimAcarnet/serhali/upload/files/zirevaruzosalaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a2ea52864df68f38a4c4bcc3e41a230/95932795619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libertyrealestate.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevokefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e967470cbe5d0701b1d5de8e01819d/75508261964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/senilukime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/32702687274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/42732504664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ead2103e9b---2324710039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://someteme.com/archivos/_20210905061336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.performhabitat.fr/bundles/astadmin/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59830572279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/fijanejajegipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50230601809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lasallelille.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juxupatetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wemservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31052662795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/zaxudevozijuselopikivubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161436650f2e80---xudigokema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragonexpressml.com/userfiles/files/lekifegulawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purepassion.pl/userfiles/file/51720867613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+clear+others+in+android+storagePDF 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_off0000be53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE53 18240 bytes
SHA-256: 85bdb79fa5f9d6f7f5b19003c90657da8800f259d86cc975a3496f473dd7837b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000104f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F1 10724 bytes
SHA-256: d359f0a9c0b3a852cf0a5190a1cba9bf751fba4425c8c3cedba8d5cce9532df1