Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a00ce0460a7cb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9619b7ad687fbbffd45e40739893ce0f SHA-1: c26aec064d85113e105105c696b7b07e1bb36ff9 SHA-256: e1a00ce0460a7cb700d486ed09fee701cae73a149c038e23e290bc44941a006c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it is designed to lure users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a link farm intended to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+photo+with+text+in+telegram PDF link annotation
    • https://interativacorretora.com/fotosempresa/files/574432489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/vekigujivawelabozivape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directorvincentchow.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/texos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugerwafers.com/demo/ruger/beta/userfiles/files/zijosimepitomefum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d3b1e325ec---79325191227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/werusexivovupope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunmoon-glory.com/web/upload/files/42921869243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafoxinibelonopej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perkunasstudio.com/uploads/files/202109090849193942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150005.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210902025156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145170a4cc72---29269118685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/jegiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunyaminerdemir.com/resimler/files/52851230543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/fatikazikirodiweregefarin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n3ss.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mamibaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batterseataxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/tojenopexuvor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfatreyd-mebel.ru/archive/images/file/32934607762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteplacementagency.com/uploads/files/43393619498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614021af7ee2f---xilafoker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/demamakefabubajubazil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3b5f6209a129cd3a9797886140f3a1/27423210003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsace.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49100280490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/betujawalanonul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vegas-shop.net/uploads/files/tagejilukigugasefeposisek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f456.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF456 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 7a11c3b5aab4a77fa86a2c7df4f63262f3091fe6cfb399918d514ceb67146f42
font_01_sfnt_off00012379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B90 11016 bytes
SHA-256: 499943c32348723cea94bd313447c7663214f3174b0f204dd0c4cb35e6f24b75