Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2dcee03e7ebf679…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 78bd397d4b36b1770b6ad4fdf2ec1314 SHA-1: ae903387cab305abb91a4caf6283b6a422085f56 SHA-256: e2dcee03e7ebf6797897d12cae53d4a12f883365a8a15b1fb6cb7a23404c2f2c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. It contains embedded JavaScript and a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the malicious activity, such as downloading further payloads or redirecting users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bill+of+rights+1688+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://healingtown.org/userData/board/file/filaxizejajozolemisixeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hantverksakuten.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowaxajopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/batebujalukavexozuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/17460700313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciacogliate.it/userfiles/files/pitexotidubetatina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/merukeratudoronojisezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/65617304243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/64300488159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/82045682663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokwuttibut.com/file_media/file_image/file/1090850668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recuva.kr/upload/fck_img/1630899973/file/bidivuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21348267551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/18897692747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwessex.com/uploads/files/pixejiwimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/57277835991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easternhoteljeju.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210919_9D6C84E5C302BC5F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stormester.no/files/file/vutoxidojejaxazerivuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nextlab-semi.com/files/fckeditor/file/sorusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modaxch.com/userfiles/files/18775889411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133714cd53cf---9418354130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://my-hustle.net/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/80604804049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintmaster.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74365727112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b67bd3c82e---69188670256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smm-mm.com/uploads/news_file/pilazojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70eshcpl9fb93bp0l815kt7om7/97804022862.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_off0000b0c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0C1 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 3fb37cd9a097725ccb1d7fc260f8211612b786bde542dc3fe341da216b57e6c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9C5 15740 bytes
SHA-256: 5d104851ef30b2a414d6c83d83a36c1140c97757c89ee7fbd46957be9d84ee5d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1