Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e65e56bb89c41147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fd48b13b2086e0d20e729193c755045b SHA-1: b0b14ab6fac91f4e8f615d5803e3df219933f1a3 SHA-256: e65e56bb89c41147adf811990cf2803b53afb9dcdca8e89fe6ef32a2514ed800
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The PDF structure and embedded links are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.iece.in/userfiles/file/43202943657.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mackbeks.com/files/file/dekal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quiltingacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/fimuzemevodudenejitujepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzoltosagmihald.hu/userfiles/file/lefefopivemuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://classoft.ro/userfiles/file/64867450460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joomlacode.org/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/img.php?file=file/zereta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graylegalservices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/48502593870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transturist.ba/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/files/87672541250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elesi.eu/fichiers/files/39066753339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed06da3393d14be512bea26732528986/rodidoxikuxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/69044554718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/vinipelejomatod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04fdf785666487f818ab16b9efd5f8dd/99491555805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logopeda-empatia.pl/content/file/kerojolasaseroxuteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventologia.com/userfiles/files/88851468659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36b4488d548f9f443b6c750d462dc0a4/69407327831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polaria.cz/images/file/4858239353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbq7j3fin3719r71pafht23vat/70121922743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetworkingpro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/subiratejusotudinufadufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhquoc.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vorizopegoguti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocreta.com/userfiles/files/sudanijefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reelproductionshd.com/userfiles/file/lixadimemipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/60630187573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sicilalluminio.it/userfiles/files/51600406920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=games+to+play+with+couple+on+phonePDF 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_off0000cf78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF78 10880 bytes
SHA-256: aabed9d13eb9f4109da2650ccb11d1dce8b7191385ae2cba0f3d8b3ea5b85e14
font_01_sfnt_off0000e890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE890 17056 bytes
SHA-256: ab6f19d98ea02e075c377558f154f72a79a14c00e99a5cd6b68244aefa12ee7f
font_02_sfnt_off00011460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11460 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1