Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5a21ab2792941cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:14:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0296908e45bcb46f8ed87a523ee8312d SHA-1: c68d10168595a3f559e4514b667554ebb28274a0 SHA-256: e5a21ab2792941cd8acec2aa5a1cc69170c140c276b1566574a324a11a2cb1db
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of these links suggests an intent to direct users to malicious sites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://purofirstli.com/userfiles/files/32673245529.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9phh4fjvg1qviub9l2o5o7hn9m/zononidexumofujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/031829576943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/5644908353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/86083756075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c55fdc61b---53162700839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a61977b7bc---befolas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://objetivovender.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4ad044ada9---34448932989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vsrru.ru/userfiles/file/dixigekela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c35c6363713---kigewig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24horasnoar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gilajoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jagominum.com/contents//files/65888248574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bygreenpure.com/userfiles/file/16574465335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/90779554522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d29026d8bb6---49473152906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8b9e1e9448---nujesamexosovazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ojnapstrho2j15qo3q7n4hjqg3/navedavedotuvumezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oikoscoccatoarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/91052111906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04c0ec3e78f021e3f7f0ef08c60cebe5/wozivixesumerezepajufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a62ad8e21---dijaruvumuwofitare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/repizufinegorusasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2602286088---gedukategagojosimalid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/241333836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160951edb08be8---49448136518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxdigi.com/userfiles/file/65951218231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=nanocomposites+articles+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_off0000bc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC02 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d419.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD419 10756 bytes
SHA-256: b624b93f7b0aa1d9c1a42a6602d33e6f45a94beea6132ecad88263f46a5dab23
font_02_sfnt_off0000ecd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD0 16588 bytes
SHA-256: bbe7ee5e4985ccd6d57e67c0f707cb1fa8ee2c738f3154000d4a5c7d8698008f