Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2e059c369df0240…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:26:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 52517091b6772433b3253de89efbc9d1 SHA-1: f930c4f9d4e2109aa6185830280e0689e10f2d7c SHA-256: e2e059c369df0240e9c1e0917690a0fe0f9da73035877d84735b2868a1f46961
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or host malicious content. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a redirection mechanism, likely to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/guxedugivukawubetojef.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/venaxuwebejulusuvesub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taitung-house.com/CKEdit/upload/files/xajikuvuvoxagewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec97743e6d6---dininepusofirapusufekixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f58fb7e15a---58871694373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/60282100757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e8edeecda---wasibejizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlonnuri.org/UpLoadImage/editer/files/49246518482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/24584854012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uclerbaklava.com/resources/file/29830686515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lenekiteliwukisadunoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulleungroadtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_DBCBCD4FACC49F3B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertbah.si/files/file/toposaliwirilaloni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/26150047272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a61715b0d22---dexojevelijuxawuwenaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oej0mh0kagftuqjq3r6cl6tvat/52273659057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d574908964---vixixagitizaripovowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesterek.net/tmp/susikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/gegebulusebepudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holdemigny.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearlakesd.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ac15140ec---ginisopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luparoduwuzuzumugubajunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facade-metal.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34803256878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasipiluzibojiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161327d44952c2---dosidesesekesogagebomusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94870394027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=basic+electronics+questions+asked+in+interviews+pdfPDF 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_off0000c8fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8FE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e110.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE110 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 279992f817a71c68dcc27911f6120cbdf9da014f2a6b523782c2f97376ba3bd3
font_02_sfnt_off00010c03.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C03 11156 bytes
SHA-256: 05d438de9b24ecc1e982a7af56db5e75cb6d44ac06010af24148df50e9f97690