Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5e06a5360048429…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-06-09 15:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 0e36a2440181df672b8d69f1506fdbc7 SHA-1: 92201d548c909af1ac2268b6eba244fdac092ff9 SHA-256: e5e06a53600484296975188953fbb7ded52d01936c2e772676c6a9d86147f145
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware or lead to phishing sites. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be related to a lure for "hack pubg mobile mod apk", a common tactic for distributing malicious software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hack+pubg+mobile+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a346c34a5f15c3eca9814761b13b2cab/31272971060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac0a9542f7a---56675183780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/14614960010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waypl.pl/upload/File/ruregiritowojagitabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3c1f96789b7271c7965e0d8bf316c5d/nutibas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/9697590474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be6e35d3e59---9698419728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/files/77657746135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandatravel.com/userfiles/file/ragosunebatozevolazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kham.vn/userfiles/file/95057903559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a629b8344a2---wumerubapula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingmontagna.com/userfiles/files/90692840237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/55292228376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b90f106171---kusukimovufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ii17ujm6j9icf60j25052uuo5a/17217334442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD8 4980 bytes
SHA-256: 4a17c71ad85ce703c7bb0430432fa96afe4f4e314d79b6310a41a7c31d1d5057
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCBA 24552 bytes
SHA-256: 3185fa5e51cee1907c3a6a1bcb175ce98f164688a0691c1112a140541a7d84fe
font_02_sfnt_off0001325a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1325A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3