Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e357ba36dce45033…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:58:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: dcc70206792851151263b7e378b6fab0 SHA-1: b647f61a6ab360ed1ece5a57de45b2829ebcfb09 SHA-256: e357ba36dce450339dfefe10e7417a2d694ce656caf470c4be1bc4b459e5a055
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The primary goal appears to be to redirect users to potentially malicious or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=seneca+letters+to+lucilius+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71e31e853f26925976ff9e9cfaa01c6e/3993571853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/xasujiwafupipafavef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376170d5815---75665268818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alexgis.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/wudapazorubegevufawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/jijibimosobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullprotec.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56168849351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/71315511926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausbaumesse.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77677176497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekinyalitim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/1407501266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/mozal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgal.pl/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92018032074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/79351266712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137363788dcc---bofulavawimevosaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://umiyawoodworks.com/fckdb/userfiles/file/30448468291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spheresignal.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/ligasewenofidisew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qian-ho.com/upfiles/editor/files/ramax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinkinesiska.com/userfiles/file/61236829150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136ffe267411---42464633968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337ab80bd4f---52549776322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/gosefofejogupupiwazugur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/9322876680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/1416120743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frutalmente.pt/site/upload/file/zimonido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/bonud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://er-cardiff.com/eurostyl/photos/file/37174890771.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_off0000df7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF7F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f791.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF791 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 76cff85ba86325089e4f3d4c6af8782483b997a487eb5431afd8f151e19e67b7
font_02_sfnt_off0001258a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1258A 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 9169c9423e02310a999f7ea886ab2509c75898f534aa1262bd30c93a5a765d80