Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e628f7834cb7e80b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ea0a1d1f52448b3b2dbad35452c3ac81 SHA-1: 52dfbbd26448617c5b070830aef05fd689f5e350 SHA-256: e628f7834cb7e80b06c7a36f60d3988fa4a402806c1e1f828ae906df6322fe91
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, indicates a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The file likely serves as a lure to download a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=drawing+expressive+portraits+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d242364953---92757141181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1bkc4q96udt235uotfsnhs0t0/susunaxafuvilaxaligojiwez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macap.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/mutejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8bb0c31233c2d04941223ca5706b212/dexobevimugopaxogojobuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents//files/86962803100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//9071213259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e27bc4ea376---rogibapukevazarefeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.papelerialapiceros.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56756776226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102bd5f4a3a4---jidunuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakmoto.cz/obrazky/file/17871866665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anshan56.cn/userfiles/file/16297174371056201111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607574144a519---32019896279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cs168.tw/upfiles/editor/files/24933522958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/tewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willbramephotography.com/tegejareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071634c36899---golimufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.site/upload/files/34403313769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160945f0194dc6---96438023996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/sowevalisaforajawelusadeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/semedevimutoralobige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/384988938.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_off0000d4a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4A7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECB9 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 91ec988a2560033b8ef6d07a223265e6b503fca66a90f30384e459386c25c538
font_02_sfnt_off00011c7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C7C 10928 bytes
SHA-256: e0d2eeecc6539f3d57a9fb3c10f09c51379fd1826110dbfded4784781cba4fad