Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1dfa80f544eb268…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-11 15:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 40a4d70b9c89aa915139f48c52279e28 SHA-1: 5eaf1bf4d2bf3400af4c0fd693188b645f079ac1 SHA-256: e1dfa80f544eb2683e5450f4ee852956902bbfeefdeba618232fa659ca65b383
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised WordPress upload storage locations and disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

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 http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b17jtiubaof0biphjg6com1tq0/vanupigewarerekubup.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://darkoyunpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/71911251052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/11536378229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d3507e2e3---96209685716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listocrm.com/userfiles/files/tavosamoked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagliodeimille.it/userfiles/files/koxogekalejuzurixarid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/56281572951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shih-tzu.ro/files/file/gowanisevenamigelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kazexuweruwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/66000194646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/finolalazinajik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agt.es/files/galeria2/files/12728690219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chokysitohang.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/kupegolopukobule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jurvamartin.com/userfiles/file/306798943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://receptlap.hu/files/naporebopovipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://typeone.com.my/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161391e5857250---54086733732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idrogastermoclima.it/Utentifile/FCKPage/file/kewizawozadadofuwuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aadfde509a---89862729820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/75863793779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourgans.org/userfiles/files/53730202505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faa80afbf70fc513e5854fa441310583/xorimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://image.dlib.vn/libedu/news/bachviet/20210909/file/zebasemogesiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/98974381505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cheats+for+top+warPDF 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_off0000ebdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDC 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 65d894f0216159182f25452ff46067a943e4abb22cdecedf133249d116c057b8
font_01_sfnt_off0001036b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1036B 18304 bytes
SHA-256: 66ad3778d3795772037ea4f05bd3450555e37069e9cd7f1b5f204ba86b6d8a36
font_02_sfnt_off0001333a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1333A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1