Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1bbe3927c2013ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b0cb86c25349aed305cd767d1268a82c SHA-1: f4f984bcb5fd5aeefe355fd762ae23f565f8f91d SHA-256: e1bbe3927c2013aed2ae8551c7281ebf2943613cb86212d5a95bdb04dfa69ab0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to other PDF files hosted on various websites, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users into downloading further malicious content or engaging in phishing activities. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct textual clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://labonguyenhoang.com/img-chamthi/files/xividadikadizaraguvox.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2742875951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f88a126df9---wipavozupoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41518430712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/58604471180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hsi-international.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44692369418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://506hlapeta.com/files/file/41723791880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuning-zone.eu/userfiles/file/fosubosisokebulutibatuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kopari.hu/files/file/nugikujikixezigosotixuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f3aa06d069---xagigiwaxetimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millvalley.com/wysiwygfiles/file/98655674813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abyss.sk/userfiles/file/zibuwopejudasibelimenunid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advocaatindex.nl/images/uploads/bapoxiladirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedule-plachty.cz/files/file/2689773896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madiagranitosilano.it/userfiles/files/gotoxurubajexawovinivaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613655015bec4---39527616459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f46b5d9d137eac29aa4bfef7becd2666/41278538928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodlife88.com/uploads/files/20033562341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/42740347525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yearbookplus.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/73157654442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riviera.az/userfiles/file/vejuvilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ghost+recon+breakpoint+androidPDF 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_off0000d90e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD90E 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 96561192a397c8e1d71730a1542d0bcabba8ef63fcb9a0fff35e72c301e7da6f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1CB 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf4ec2dc26b0ed2ffb99fbe1f5c55dc092da0856cbca407b982ab286f7eea5f
font_02_sfnt_off00011f24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1