Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e249a83c045a5845…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2021-07-19 00:04:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: b257500001ef03c23ce2e3bb6530922c SHA-1: 0eb5109765b9451de1897df6910d1eebff7f6a44 SHA-256: e249a83c045a58459e5f630047d189f53497171b62b8cd1a83fd933abb4b80ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are flagged as potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://lbtech.kr/upfile/files/53642128758.pdf
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/20882075770.pdf
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xuxaxomani.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da30d69c700---32946957152.pdf
    • https://mides.vn/images/ckeditor/files/12372584966.pdf
    • https://www.passion-rnd.com/upfile/files/2021/06/25/48975193676.pdf
    • https://hosvagyok.hu/userfiles/file/kevud.pdf
    • http://amuseonline.com/absite/userfiles/file/61815574391.pdf
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081f8d965035---kadixonudiwovanafipuxoni.pdf
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/beb85c0b7f2b38ed34fdf86a1a8903d7/fitotenorapux.pdf
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/69312044865.pdf
    • http://hud101.vn/webroot/img/posts/files/36302135856.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b568343474b---sajimamimerunabed.pdf
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e09b4f04ca1d6df9fdb979e9fa10cb1/59132283539.pdf
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cda6119a8kntvvq3mnqod36m3/timumovitanujobija.pdf
    • https://lamaisonducoeur.ca/upload/editor/file/zedebisa.pdf
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a153095fe99---59540061542.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608158947d92e---66344415793.pdf
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/dogax.pdf
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e912cf27c7d---zesezejumebuse.pdf
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad9b20d0b74---rasonus.pdf
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/zexemeliwifu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+the+bible+say+about+provision
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b83b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB83B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d04d.bin
bdde2818f933de466c238f30a5298442b7f90064c0e45914411823d26843f379
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD04D 16316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa62.bin
f52b4c5eaeea4e484f1f6ab3c204220e143a17b18557a38d53eb006f0b169555
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA62 10900 bytes