Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1b3f7110828973a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 08:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 876f6b6fc5948e3fedf73858a2d5248e SHA-1: 2ece1c34fe19e0d39da49fa9476a1716e8ebdf03 SHA-256: e1b3f7110828973a808bd01abaa19827b9ebbeb7cf95b64b027268020f872d0d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers flagged this PDF as malicious, specifically identifying it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple external links suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://ckattorneys.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dukesixadaxakogiweranofi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://7profi.net/userfiles/file/35717718409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/69685290512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrampetraipavlavosstanovlenie.ru/content/images/user/file/88126064180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613eaf6804394---68074551597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sardavetri.it/userfiles/file/21134321373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyskischool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaaaikdebj9ccf1ayja1b5a3q.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigexamosifewosekamuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stw-nowogard.pl/download/file/fudubapeleguvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ahldk4nfgrmo995poof67g36p7/52891165251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homestationrealty.com/userfiles/files/20558148957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio-scan.com/userfiles/file/87179563948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhacollection.com/images/files/pabekaxajodabomesani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durimawar.com/contents/files/gadikadoral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn-----6kcaheblih5ab0a6afqbzoqe.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37565367856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakumekividofebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32597361138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gigseuflv70jf8hk0hgom89k84/wajupenixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/58982546180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdalehorseboarding.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depezova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-lannion.fr/userfiles/file/49300255452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skene.es/userfiles/file/53791829571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golasiwilafolup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/tidolofirorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/54425417459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=feliz+navidad+sheet+music+pdfPDF 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_off0000d7c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C9 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 45f1eb0a8a13690716e23958d269ace9b76aba033263d3985a91e81737247b6b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0B5 18672 bytes
SHA-256: ec75ceed45274bea6f81a8d5b654a020012bbac390927b350a13a6441303900d
font_02_sfnt_off0001219f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1