Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b559817e7673c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.6 KB Created: 2021-06-29 07:09:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 273d7c5466a5d9e052ec87210937fb00 SHA-1: 27d751e767cfe78f6059614e1773b533226a4334 SHA-256: e5b559817e7673c5a235df6d7ced908719176a01788bf0870b8d636137c41eb0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the document's structure suggest an attempt to exploit users by directing them to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/difizexukiwotupib.pdf
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/64016162338.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d94e19d82c7---ruwafijag.pdf
    • http://apsons.eu/files/file/bolomi.pdf
    • http://iltorg.ru/upload/file/90101280998.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a080082fbb8---78313843187.pdf
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/37935073299.pdf
    • http://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/21470766101.pdf
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ha9mfsirbi3gfrd2k7tij2uol/duvuwigabotunimevebutexu.pdf
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f09d13049---59916638064.pdf
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607991aa53321---20676386005.pdf
    • https://vate-tire.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f18944f4d373e653a0dc58f2400f6247/likezef.pdf
    • https://www.tunnel.de/files/uploaded/file/94075246225.pdf
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/mubozupimunuvaf.pdf
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/pukewegajawowigexibu.pdf
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d56bb86def22f3f6dd123f0718582e36/30464679299.pdf
    • https://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0aa90760b76353d2b51bd3f4c740a8/bewimivebigoguzoxija.pdf
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160709c4f62823---96439750565.pdf
    • http://historia-bfured.hu/userfiles/file/99658353116.pdf
    • http://dijladentalcenter-qa.com/userfiles/file/9780082574.pdf
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b9b4e8231---39983946804.pdf
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c913a6e22---lituderokewinovi.pdf
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/83153925698.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=a+stressor+is+defined+as
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104b5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104B5 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011cc7.bin
41ff68d03414b641907fd5b61f9f67906bc8f30b0d658a7c72b9b57da76e6dfa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CC7 17536 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000149f8.bin
f805b96aacd6a82b433435874eb07377a6dec2ef230370b763661e38dd57b4b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x149F8 10280 bytes