Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5d26af3e8b31290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:26:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 251d7fa3ff0666b09a2b2fa66008c619 SHA-1: e9ef7dc4a1dc423a05227b06dbfc052262053b46 SHA-256: e5d26af3e8b31290474afd8a6ac21c02a94f0f1784bafe6de687c2e892a45783
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure of downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+idm+download+and+install PDF link annotation
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59478971361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai2am2qc684kfqqtr8s3blfdq3/berosesulekulidajemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613583d9e270d---93931530322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realxenon.ru/uploads/files/panikizitut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kolaykanal.com/userfiles/files/bezapuvibiwitafiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210909092743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/sejelovidumotilene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e445bf618---kafozevekewasudenubugiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelniagararimini.eu/userfiles/files/12661405210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/kemabedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radio-salsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/55341699364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/jofanagukapowonisirinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karjerastests.bankai.lv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/morokez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21212961020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/visesir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaikevai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61926270445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nuzotopava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jdconstinc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/merolusorofamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/buzenovupezesonikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holidayservicemarsala.it/userfiles/files/92602795926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sayurhijau.com/contents/files/moripomemixifijenunedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lezegudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peisheng.org/uploads/ckfiles/files/613a11061087f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/55311506901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interangkorcondominium.com/userfiles/file/69429917578.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_off0000dbbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D2 10472 bytes
SHA-256: a60799baa0abf238d2d64804c0978934821dd229fc0641c2c3c38355a2d91cd0
font_02_sfnt_off00010b9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B9F 17272 bytes
SHA-256: 956281b5a095deb43b9fda26515324cba391d1cde56927f653f246ffb46a78a7