Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7eda41c275ba810…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fe0e7aa4618fbf1f61cf4e60d6a9b91b SHA-1: 1010fec29003b72bd9ab75f7926a2ec39b475ed9 SHA-256: e7eda41c275ba810fb7e15474f1c73fc0f00f17c809dda2932725c1a5d0a5c3e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to direct users to potentially malicious content, such as phishing pages or malware download sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ibps+po+pre+question+paper+2017+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/vatowojuvusuwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/85397284383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osheamaloneynylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gowogebojibagekesobaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zzhqhi.com/d/files/782345976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neferopusizibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phnl3vcdso9lsonkc4np3djpu3/lazeduwinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14a3a2bcf136df3f35e885dce529a4a1/fomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085147db8e30---dumufapomokujawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caissedesecolesdu5eme.fr/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8043842720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/9817268389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/32872416419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phillipwhiting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160836cdd31928---55418778637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/19060327584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a97427a6b---92685753244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cibaospalaser.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fo1i802s56nka093s04ttv9546/mawojisirodomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/15744137711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavbyhes.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58141948318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/zarajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/zesekosaxojisusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikanderajam.com/Robinson/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38517327031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thechitay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/59200421708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.servicioscalibrados.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bea632351bfa14bb96b0b23fa4c31b1e/riwuviselukunurasolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a807aceac17---91605781566.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_off0000cad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD1 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 1986dc790479544ac80aa6d256ab80a327a308887f1241e375591b448076897c
font_01_sfnt_off0000e493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE493 18496 bytes
SHA-256: cca9cc7a56cf4ba2c64f07a50dd55558ee00f3ccf57764fef8e6b82c30312b67
font_02_sfnt_off000114ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1