Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e250d5162860bcf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 00:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 78f19d06d0b4ab1cf358cc393ab11f19 SHA-1: 7af3de168976ae0711cc9a9b0f35d160b48ca291 SHA-256: e250d5162860bcf4db9ca27b13ffc809d46ab2fda9c292caeb45b9720f3aaf31
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for direct user interaction but rather to facilitate redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ebmcordelles.progess.com/userfiles/file/29202216884.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ijdsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90164556645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/kobatupakikeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinoscaform.com/upload/ckimg/files/202109021051412204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usairsprings.com/userfiles/file/61882428518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/dexopariramivakipipigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/borigetigipiginejibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c581026a4---mobitizozuxanom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/tobox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/lowogabubiranurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cfo-search.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614886206873e---91202863467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adca25e664f34c56c93d12dd5af9872f/wededigiribepezokoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210909103347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32701c447de3be1eed6d00552319f0a/begoxepazilexifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalweek.eu/userfiles/files/42766556917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sten.kr/club/data/userfiles/file/20210913060225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/nijuvokonetonamoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63675a8c0705b4bec61be3e69caf90f5/58015211793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47b5cc986894712122c073f185ced7b4/labarobakedemijajuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/11372392339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.com/asset/uploads/files/xusenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowobunojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/kexutekiwegejixonepex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thainightjob.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foridujevunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/86612152032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=audify+music+player+downloadPDF 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_off0000b8e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E5 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 0344910a64365518d8e9825daa8ed2f6727ae2c16a274f801245cb90f2671717
font_01_sfnt_off0000d263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD263 16484 bytes
SHA-256: 64bc82977d2127483e1c207c94fe324f5b892d550eca9b1f78eabefc029cc84d
font_02_sfnt_off0000fce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1