Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e496e32175e0b66a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 16:46:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 261b486b661063a48a79f9ee1719d216 SHA-1: bdfca8fa14b863049ce90ff6d546820a57bfe7dd SHA-256: e496e32175e0b66af87837ad69156e1d8c2b5540326d3751cdc0d4391cc8bcd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to external, potentially malicious, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9896

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 http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/39754544162.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/50539799861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sam-global.info/files/file/66010842856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51812878837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ove3r3ep4a9lt4a33j5j5ontp/mulaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7580f84345---69849502127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eqb46cau8d95je1vh4a8145s7p/gamibidozoduneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af5644404931144503b5211d4d1b855d/kiwazurusubanomam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t5gkhro5egtam2n7lln9fdk3p5/lanijuwozowunawuvomepad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/86219098300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hacoauto.vn/upload/files/78539440541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialchangefactory.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f6260c55e6d0f993957ecd8921622fc/legotiwekijat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608564189c439---16557780680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.democratum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3150e0ed077479e0898a0bf4e98f25a3/nomuduretuzatizera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc32ef35009---39646863584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5edbda3d14---76768405394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/63339936778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/vatapijokugepus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o34i4nm7vf8hsc82buqk4julo9/pawebixaxamaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a676f29e9---wedifiwizine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs1961.com/clients/871949/File/nonan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a38e66a749---zawoveludebob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f5af33f5f---vowiposuridi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f599ab5ec5283e0ca5b9514b398105/60827375112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075de45c32fa---zatizaguligokekut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=displacement+current+maxwell+equationPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B4 10968 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce770b7f8b57ba19b022af7254adc5594e625f940dd0ca9f3b7ad551cc218f5
font_01_sfnt_off00012b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001434e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1434E 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 9b0ffc2ad23f1e26a993a9ee7b3fcf49d334190d71df85600908b68d9ddfdfd5
font_03_sfnt_off0001716e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1716E 16384 bytes
SHA-256: f1dd762ab392e50f302e08a59ae5f665ce8387c4127daba6547abcc2f88fc7eb