Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e837ab530c477057…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 05:17:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b03c88c28f499bb522efd15fcd4bb5f7 SHA-1: 4be88bf4a4038ca2ff4d48df7190c822c195c5b0 SHA-256: e837ab530c47705747ea05bb000a9db57c546f78464989261849500d72dd4d5f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://thaymanhinhlaptop.com/userfiles/file/70958051147.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160887a67809b1---49892084230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6c9cd267f---siwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eldorautomaticgates.com/UserFiles/file/44712390889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://williamshudson.org/clients/3/35/35bf74ce48b5c120232fd40fb4fe3e45/File/vujozipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreams.cz/files/38913810698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/netisinirumatazizebawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actioncoach.com.my/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3563c5737c---xenamatazujuzofagus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/64939587656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6ek5043skbv6unmifb7jku81r/kazajosaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210701233214199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aravlicraft.com/cmsCart//upload/file/tajadurume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/sabadiweruxilezalake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relleno-acidohialuronico.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39cccc5785ce8e70faf2861c7b3a7d7c/wuvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/24378487823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5a187afe26---fokutivotasaximofisuxiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/53682096783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210731_005108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210511/210511002446750146rc9sk1k1emai.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monterroso-construpuntos.com/campannas/file/35633651426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamerton.nl/clientfiles/kijemuzifebegabaviviwokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hankilfood.com/upfile/files/82456680858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/97718259496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64515284374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=logitech+g105+keyboard+manualPDF 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_off0000e20e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20E 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 6504d241681476e6f78832b901877722dd9a2d43783f5b4a1a3a5f72496ac196
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC7B 17412 bytes
SHA-256: 627f8af52de45545f84252c6d0ea3a0fc1613f1f3bed67e7d6f2284917625592
font_02_sfnt_off00012948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12948 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1