Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2beb57cf9bc9925…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:29:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 74839341a3b1083cb81c4b342346bc1d SHA-1: eff4167275c6b977fd36403f5a3784f5e88859e5 SHA-256: e2beb57cf9bc9925e4ba2687a65f4247e8d1fd91a0e7a889612877010c24ee1b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF link farms often involves JavaScript to redirect users to malicious sites, hence the inclusion of T1059.007. The primary attack pattern is likely spearphishing via attachment (T1566.001), aiming to redirect users to malicious content.

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 https://digireg.es/upload/76868191186.pdf
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/orvre64tjk80jahm2uoobjr4h4/xuvimalodukofolibu.pdf
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bavolijerirageteborajugag.pdf
    • http://orthopaede4you.de/userfiles/file/68282548931.pdf
    • http://rwdwebwebdesign.com/img-aim/files/bugapovogujorujux.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24ad3a04fe7692813cec2f1818abf97d/24122953985.pdf
    • https://sy-chemical.com/UserFiles/file/xazumonibujimeza.pdf
    • http://way-of-spirit.ru/upload/file/tazuxotixul.pdf
    • http://nguyenphat.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/juzoxifakefijawesuxiz.pdf
    • https://perkunasstudio.com/uploads/files/202109220157074117.pdf
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sbtsueuk9t8uig9bgtdi0121u1/konotumesoguz.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/xezarimebekurebod.pdf
    • http://unicaconsultoriarh.com/images/files/48409287583.pdf
    • https://fnb-concepts.com/images/uploads/files/wugiwowodiwatakona.pdf
    • http://akiisushi.com/uploads/files/94134697868.pdf
    • https://dewalt-naradi.cz/media/upload/editor/file/5348665496.pdf
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/masekavanaluretol.pdf
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/85613502008.pdf
    • http://american-security-inc.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5229571456.pdf
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/jozamoxaxafinanofozolovu.pdf
    • http://akbarestate.com/survey/userfiles/files/wasajepinadoxexikuvupu.pdf
    • https://vntdc.com/upload/fck/file/11977829581.pdf
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/wisedu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=web+series+free+watch
    • 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_off0000e28b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE28B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9d.bin
e402c92a1e5948f8fc117d407e108eb0a6529b3bfe03db25cdb7233baa7b0921
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9D 16848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001263f.bin
4927ecd9f8fb495413d0529a671fb33cfff86e377978ff41b7c46b6baa73d08f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1263F 10384 bytes