Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e198ab216e0da69d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-09 01:11:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 1fea6cebff64e7fc6369710e55216a5b SHA-1: 280f7450cf7fd913bc889d5914b87daa5fd7dc56 SHA-256: e198ab216e0da69ddc89dabca7244bfa0fae0fb2613c566743c395a948339145
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV also detecting it as a phishing trojan. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the presence of many external links indicates a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fd9d236160---28222529616.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160942313bd23d---44057189053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a616b38824---dogaridasivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a586f504a4e---76053826010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087512c94354---41045856223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abeess.com/userfiles/file/sesixerumufamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbbea2c79a---56244061597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091d7aa492b5---betug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160754c8c1022e---xatagiruzozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/9373804359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/ludaxisafivububib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gasserbush.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/843cd963c5211ebfeca87538eef1dc30/53941311387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f4356a1d0e---joluseselewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentimresiklos.hu/upload/file/63186206740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lateonsettay-sachs.org/userfiles/file/41357617666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/21222959304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c57720c59e5---47763735537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huthamcauquanggiap.com/upload/files/fufafexoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschaden.expert/userfiles/file/ferorasux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d37dc2b6740ad23506acb1e50a48a0eb/gixazopezozezosolebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160956e800786c---nivikedetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uogf2map1j8b4k5rkqcanf53sr/97580736868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/rurewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48e0d4612eb93f08ccc53371ced159f5/12207277491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=part+time+self+employedPDF 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_off0000f633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF633 17256 bytes
SHA-256: d5afc28192d42a90f2af49c67e748e3aa9e29d0924df1cbd0ed812e7095cb0d4
font_01_sfnt_off00012379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12379 10672 bytes
SHA-256: bf4bd03f92f869347bb0fd504c7f8272311064bfe436a7e803becbdb5db0f7ed
font_02_sfnt_off00013bf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1