Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1cc4873d6ce71f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 19:52:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 008ba0565196744901a3936727b079c4 SHA-1: a7546758f625cfc2f9c017a4a76b4e80bbd7dbca SHA-256: e1cc4873d6ce71f53a00cdf925be586ffc500166334e3d64123ff926ac9d371b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised WordPress sites and other potentially malicious PDF files. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to phishing sites or download further malware, aligning with spearphishing attachment tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://cvenhancer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30cfd36de327edfe1323fd1bfedd4034/48399250069.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/3768798062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9g982s2q85pnjh2hb6hoqv6ap6/danafuzugobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amsuatrust.org/survey/userfiles/files/bonegexusufixak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146ed761cbc8---kegubezevojusevefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elperrocallejero.info/ckfinder/files/xarewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/xevexalexazimitirawazob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etevent.itweald.com/uploads/files/613bf6a5a999b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitekinfostructures.com/userfiles/file/85532262976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biomisszio.hu/tmp/vefifozupojudesofag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/fixunugadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chandigarhdatarecovery.com/files/file/rotogarilijelijowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshamiltrading.com/alshamilfiles/file/zijenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yt333.com/userfiles/20210911/file/1631324345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/zenofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/wuzeladujapinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161390afb6a016---jixiwomafilamimagebumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kortennis.co.kr/B/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39278975022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387253a16c9---fozazoxotivigisatix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/70278424427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamap.in/ci/userfiles/files/bujuladelevulijatuneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/tegogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=class+3+grammar+worksheetPDF 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_off0000dfec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFEC 10740 bytes
SHA-256: c908210e7dff82695e64ff91590e97bb383b16a8a26c950b7b9379e2939f9e8b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C7 19428 bytes
SHA-256: 4d8c44fb0c166d53554a6f4a33f3e1f8edc358d491c3c5812c7048af2ed2c107
font_02_sfnt_off00012b72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1