Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e198d14187aee471…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 16:43:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fc419536600783f09123c11dafc020d1 SHA-1: 6e3d9f7de5512fb95b5e802f1731a839bd5ab7e9 SHA-256: e198d14187aee471a504fb57ba0016cf0892ebf295e4a5047f000960d44e800b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign, where the PDF acts as a lure to external content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

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://statewideroadservices.com/clients/879378/File/tukokopatabewowagisijeduv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--eyt274i.com/upload/files/zawenefajobesasolalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.apartamentselsllacs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v0jlfjqpjpjqvvnv013bsu4v7c/75372007827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hbfilm.ca/resimler/files/79077387250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/79364347321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987ada8db99---wilezoginoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/jizubapozasolafiditewezeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deedpoll.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87096d4e02233b245c7cc4c658c38c42/60538590726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunggia.biz/userfiles/file/tubefuluwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c822eddc1a---77212437440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/dilixemujufemegemeter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/kixitinededeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labonscafe.com/userfiles/70259941112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p055ap4q64h5irvqui475201ob/zarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/7817112472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/wobepojuwizida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/13877989548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/jusogazoxisodekimijuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8bb52119502f13a4cdacf510707b1e03/76849588408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ancient+city+of+byblosPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF873 18340 bytes
SHA-256: ccc7ab231deb577434ba1d3680c60459ce31064d05bc8beb23eb437198655731
font_01_sfnt_off000127e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127E8 10304 bytes
SHA-256: c1febff73164586c0809f81f570b95e6d42c7c657f20bf2146349cabe54a8d7b
font_02_sfnt_off00013f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F4C 16332 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad1dfefee5abd13e1a4dc733b243c1c546609ea72bd3198f3e1f0e9c622a474
font_03_sfnt_off0001558f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1558F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1