Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a1dfc86ea0a88c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:00:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 44c383b05c422c0957ad7c2df58e6346 SHA-1: ab58930e5fae9cba387721278cc7515ad37b2cfa SHA-256: e1a1dfc86ea0a88c1007ffaf28b07380160d012e93afc37e9510218f1ef6d085
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, specifically a phishing trojan. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bosch+kl+1206+battery+charger+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://gradeagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/imu1mbr66cu6av27esglojsqeg/18341031921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/42667889469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8noen7lc20ri790nsusnp03d2m/repoponujatew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapp.fr/medias/files/92947774799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securityguardsupply.net/php/uploads/file/76258093186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exclusivelimoservice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilumarizejasafepumonor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/vekubisakafomapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edebab8f38d81759982e244701a4986c/fuwumalisetunolumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6614221848fe8992a7454083b91cd3aa/mebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/tukesogalidudoxufufamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landia-print.com/pdir/file/pulikizeropu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14feuvcvq158pdfk5rm3ufdghk/92030350913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b940ebc362e0c202af7e6e4a786f1ff/89355458077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonkingchina.com/d/files/52925647562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d798681176d---detelerirusexeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/riwimoniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moderator.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/zuwexin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanafuziwilinife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wetawokaviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607250363da60---xejifevidofimakud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612010846b60a---zetezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/38544747062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partnyor.az/userfiles/file/xerotifuravepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oasis-inwaste.asia/files/file/zevone.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_off0000db65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f377.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF377 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 58d9fc0717438b7ab8a461d4fb8d471b86d097087dd551bbe81fbe036b5051df
font_02_sfnt_off0001238c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238C 11544 bytes
SHA-256: b329e84bbb5f3396377f5f99f74391e083e139c808a23d7e478401aec70261fe