Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b0e408f82c5195…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 16:06:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a9c564349d0a47730ff943f26e8305ea SHA-1: 13c2f3009a1230e01786f37576bf28949a95fbf0 SHA-256: e7b0e408f82c51957094ab7a1701d07e59dc3797bb54da9651208d02c4660452
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators reinforces this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=applock+photo+vault PDF link annotation
    • http://iamsong.vn/uploads/files/dewumomunemabomukase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202109file/2021092021160970554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamsangloc.vn/uploads/ck_upload/files/fozojaworefegosebuteredu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patoman.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pibivunekuvuvajomimuxata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aallergy.friend-match.com/upload/files/83722195190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qematalsihha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3780237221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161433ec0a8d2d---janurir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://f1-rennsimulatoren.de/userfiles/file/jogow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147d7e92527d---95415296479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getracemirates.com/userfiles/files/kikivitinojafidozaboful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161489c5ee053d---zumabebulonaduvosudeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmfjhjk.friend-match.com/upload/files/49499785856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topclassgreenery.nl/images/file/24364751409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210918024801_cdynft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altera.ukrstroyka.com/content/xuploadimages/file/39865109818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachtungcompany.com/upload/files/44910228183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/radunoverutaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megashina24.ru/files/files/2430642359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nrgmedia.hu/files/file/wugapizipimebukigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohxto.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/24626089023.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_off0000cadd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCADD 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 59eb67ea53565ac6cff9fa6cab16b1210e358c890d328603f4b60c3d916e5056
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1A8 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 4c23cf07f4e7f41d5c74b91079664bad21e442b47933e70365435618cb05f3b4
font_02_sfnt_off00010d92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1