Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1cbfe2ed3917bba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 19:06:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cf4f02fc7c50b2b67be249f1b2bb3faa SHA-1: 344feaaebbf8658b19ad90f7c426ab8856c7c646 SHA-256: e1cbfe2ed3917bba833c8c4ef1094d9c59f6487f245f72f7e4caa8ea944326c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/1133013668.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.aukuras.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36690970657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exms.fr/sites/default/files/file/gosuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/63668377183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzerelamonikafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mafaladipizasidurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olgunbey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/58286247786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cesiedizioni.com/userfiles/file/33455012550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_61D3BB64447D35CF.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/ferivujixaton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/misugijapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.dacola.com/upload/files/lesozalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e3f5c8a7dcc3a8d4f0823d9f0848325/69183681443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf1e4ea3b8---kebomiwox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/buvegopak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/kuguwagomekesusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/sizabosuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gres-k.cat/userfiles/file/13463555194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161363e012c2a2---15696038880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snabsz.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48758544810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atolab.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d78ab934682de42f30a89777bebf2429/gizozodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/35415077477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+new+mutants+soap2dayPDF 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_off0000ce7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7F 19004 bytes
SHA-256: 748d27a1599546cdff76bb381acfc9fe3d114ccfb5bb4a467ab29f889b038fe1
font_01_sfnt_off00010065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10065 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001187c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187C 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 89ca4678912caf331af579631a65ab5b156b83dc4922e08cf6d7be6fb9867d52