Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e790b67ee86e40bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 173ae939312eef105b37535643774974 SHA-1: 8a4789751171770a4b43ea899766896dd7d984a4 SHA-256: e790b67ee86e40bb2e7cba64a7fa178e2bd2b6605d6b4db6db16b7a930798d00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Static analysis revealed numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the presence of these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/nolejovinenusaxunixavozo.pdf
    • http://cunningham-reunion.com/clients/7/73/7399477c88ef979e1ad3ac38e42cffcc/File/vorure.pdf
    • https://xn--22ck6bdp5cach0mc23a.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30855140278.pdf
    • http://umrllc.com/userfiles/files/82266456115.pdf
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/pesojinadojetutolewot.pdf
    • https://tedvandergulik.nl/userimages/file/piwaruxuvasasax.pdf
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcf3b6011ca7796c28a55f0aa45faaa3/vifamowojegig.pdf
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079ce65316ab---fojamubo.pdf
    • http://texmet.pl/userimages/file/2938445866.pdf
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb96ac1841d---renomadabaxuv.pdf
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4136810050f3d85b0e5bf9f53894e22e/xevabomiwavo.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fefce395b3c3adbc723f9ceb6cd2deb0/tuzabavuwol.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63a1a1d032---39780499661.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a85b5jhquqrvmojvp3fad18dc/9832196947.pdf
    • http://woodwork.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/mejotuzowanobaju.pdf
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/40727603350.pdf
    • https://bataretak.com/img/files/file/gusabosikarivetog.pdf
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1efe63d608---fonog.pdf
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f0391eed8fe491919520b7678ae91c0/vebevedizizumibusas.pdf
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8258e6edc7271a384e685cbc07e8e349/xumekexarobojobozox.pdf
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608362b1a322a---xenebisibukiti.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tub9msv9bpgcvj1lccobgkar29/vagexifuzemogedagil.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68136a79323af95ed14fd4e4ed525f57/47704565540.pdf
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d42ab37c4c---64264693720.pdf
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/devediditokib.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b5b5f37a4c---kifarigirevojinejibewije.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+the+song+stairway+to+heaven
    • 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_off0000fd77.bin
322fdec8e26a79753dd6bfaf4443785c9d5e14dfa2c23038d3521d4d9f77e05c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD77 17176 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012965.bin
6553c821275316ced52af85d3cea6bccf56cefe43e766ec9b14367792d44e48d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12965 10844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001425a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1425A 16792 bytes