Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a5e6f4f7729ba1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:03:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ae3a38266a3d3c35bc8cad9609353678 SHA-1: 3c6120061991bd6a3cb0953b4faa644ae559c24b SHA-256: e2a5e6f4f7729ba173ac73b63ead0f175317f7b16136e52901c9205c81186196
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=diagramme+des+orbitales+mol%C3%A9culaires+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://vln.nl/files/file/81816354384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bayardplaza.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5tgf6htos4hkrbspbkqqm1king/buxufukekuzaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/947ac471b0862c7f50eb5fdab6a96124/kosorugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b18ca93bc95---70767048010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/sedomideret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://service-panev.com/userfiles/sariwepove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekbdrive.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/potaxevakoluku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9767i3dfujbcq46stskn80413/wemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://93564497.com/userfiles/75635073035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec876650952de39f1774aa034772d42/komiwezeledagurinone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4b3ceiocc2dvoibnjc8n2l65g/fexeturiwuvonajokipava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/81485724977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/6210791284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imobilestore.de/userfiles/file/bulabinaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacydockandmarine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/51a06d87337fd089d1bdffede9bbafdf/80494551261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wallsfamilyreunion.com/clients/876683/File/52142635078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7sate.com/filespath/files/20210814025639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/widibixopatiwunapos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senarathgroup.lk/assets/media/file/fanavawer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e9c082a99f---zabupakanapofilipumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/70460328943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alliance-ltd.com/userfiles/wukilizozuxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/599a8013e63ea93e162428e85eff9d2b/25168210403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///61052299168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e81f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE81F 21516 bytes
SHA-256: f9dab0a7bc8ba2f2bd5e7221187a31b137f29a1f067d8fbf1bc965ddc3e79380
font_01_sfnt_off00011f12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F12 11256 bytes
SHA-256: 08edea1ddfc51c1155c1248eb6182004c1f8a385adfd420753678050b1ac5236
font_02_sfnt_off000138ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1