Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e291d807c1591f1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:31:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3c66707d858caab3f9f7f59f55c0d3e0 SHA-1: 5ccfd598a9c42f7049332556fba500d3c2b077c2 SHA-256: e291d807c1591f1c9a516e248898b11b27260f8f8aacc1dca9bc5ac4ad7f070a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple external PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely initial access vector via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://planbmedia.hu/files/80061750308.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/493c6rrvbndau3up5scubac7m3/nogavedixuzug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nataliashishkina.com/userfiles/file/sijavalafigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contua.org/userfiles/file/juxadawuxexuperizaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/28651231407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccjsc.com/images/uploads/files/91269382032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indexone.ru/upload/file/zojupejirisagubobezavinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142efe39f833---zexesibexum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group-com.gbintl.com/ci/userfiles/files/jaleluvapaxirasigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinenieuwsbriefversturen.nl/gebruikers/afbeeldingen/65296902756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/68196373341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ensky-chemical.com/upload/files/82814244437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solyaris.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazopolusube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136819b06071---56349416547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210909202953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/91588283751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109050627385632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theartofdesign.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxajumitogiwoxuvetumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aneri12.cz/res/file/91136892393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ybshajiang.com/userfiles/file/2021-09-10/210910122741927470heofth94h5rm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35220447078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/refilif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freeunlock.com/uploads/file/89525060008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=balancing+chemical+equations+cheat+sheetPDF 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_off0000e605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE605 17980 bytes
SHA-256: b2eafbec9c400cf149720d59a43c584c3fa96ad7ad5c2dd02325ff7d93e3df44
font_01_sfnt_off0001147c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1147C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C93 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 696e19da8454db9e25f3a8f036e4a65e25971ca672961fe94fb3f5d6f60e665c