Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5aecd4d9be2f43c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:24:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7f344a02a4fd88a1fba4ac865e4519e9 SHA-1: cffe92ce021ab404fe0ea95923b98755fffb6a32 SHA-256: e5aecd4d9be2f43c92cb9e53c6bb84e75609edc2e7ab74677053281803ad7b93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure suggest an attempt to disguise malicious links within seemingly legitimate content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://vksraja.in/fckeditor/upload/file/22878637773.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://womenshealthcarenp.com/clients/2/29/29a32d4da59f0b4eaa4573e1354aeabc/File/kalemikuvareravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgpj.com/upfolder/e/files/20210703021302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b24b4ee0bd9028a1b8e896e28bdd439e/raverusejetisamexeduxavaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mahkotacare.com/tmr/userfiles/files/womirelaxamemud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/votopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160730bf06ea85---419684763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyrukrc.lt/userfiles/file/kuxojilen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isvpro.com/custom/files/mimazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e41eef25aa9e53dd0980acba0b191988/36851138762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/lujasapewategaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imaginove.eu/data/Files/99030742189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c7dadeb21---93196641268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zilemozigegofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kezheng.net/Upload/file/dizodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59f0bbb309282cb15c8ee0961d83b8e6/senofezusajiwulaboxufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/bewixamutibudikanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/77087524522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/619b3c8b806ff1faa691398df30cda4b/73222607717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavs.eu/userfiles/file/budazixolel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8e286c2472---58495873058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ark-mr.com/data/home/qxu2063190031/htdocs/uploadfile/files/74083892461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/94578093709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringnederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96159968920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngoinvest.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/dobavodunobotuvifimefinuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/lekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=calendario+2019+peru+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_off0000e1ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BA 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 2b0c1fa2d976c72402f4cb1e977d88a391dc8b0bacaa8ce6935f6b05136108d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000faca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACA 20008 bytes
SHA-256: a6e6ec432d5894e208c61cbd2724995ce4a5083231964e255b48cd825013dd2d
font_02_sfnt_off00012d9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D9E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1