Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e352dfada376303d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 19:59:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: f049f45614c5b41e4b81d0ebb3eb0023 SHA-1: bf5619b25f90d7bd5e46a84a31987b875d8c79cf SHA-256: e352dfada376303d7369085524c3a01d6e165754c78d451982d2685a013dcd83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites. Several heuristics indicate that these links are part of a link farm, with some URLs hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/xifurazewagesepokaliseb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://theaterbuehne-schwandorf.de/userfiles/file/68487056156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodbridgeabw.com/uploads/files/papasataledaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aaptuk.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sidazewejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenxuezj.com/images/File/42789723645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cf77be60967---71339416759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedzenie365.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46536018481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pr792o8ab0tv698dodifplpc27/pisoguwuxilukagusedulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etest.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/nefomedupadapufijebenem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/xifoxukuvona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/zavofemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expertnutritionadvisor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093f971ed2ec---nafenaxipibixuresotavokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3e3e0c065a5af24f36c8c35d687dbb1/49410474718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc88e304d5---22615689219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akamercedes.com/images/uploads/files/pugubitoxewavatawane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seedcambodia.org/htdocs/cljr/data/files/46101489934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/polalegovonenovadite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/74289261644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112b42a48f45---bapawumotegutigipupogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e81e216bc0---19208628603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/104de127ebc258a92c90903821907ffe/juduxebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/nexul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondasushi.com/uploads/files/jawuwasisamawisulesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94427545949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=impulsive+decision+making+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_off0000d0b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B1 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 02f399adb279dc7e1feff212b5ed035725d82b7488802a62d9d820aa136c30ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EA 16416 bytes
SHA-256: dc1852b67ac5e51fd18211857d4c644665e5fcedfb293a57db0c9d5cfc76eb57
font_02_sfnt_off00011422.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11422 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1