Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e83b4168901b78ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-08-17 04:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: c26389537b6bfe94d4f17c5827a5988e SHA-1: 1b393cd372da72067457e63b2419d8b02cb2aebc SHA-256: e83b4168901b78eedeff8276c99f7c7c47fae236370856796f28287937a294a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload storage locations and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs are likely part of a redirection chain designed to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e102b26e6a---pavemazoxigutefabofipul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/dosanofumaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/bigatom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakpaisanestate.com/images/upload/files/salufusuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1eaf2a37b8d476d6101dd309e6266a8c/jakamagudasatijetujafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/piofjcf499svoe7mb4ef4hv8lg/sexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kubosulire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boucherienabli.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/nurarerajalubudis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trsbarriersdirect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89dsrm6jrn62kp3vkgq6lri5uj/finelarulegif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/63876384847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f280339c660c7e51768ac44e1a07d47f/82080164296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plswa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/408736a473a6553ae6edd36524480d3e/3424029864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/mejizuvarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d090joseu1t2ul4e0bjh65arh6/6107952980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazosilikatnn.ru/uploads/files/sowonowuluvewapazonal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocinti.eu/userfiles/files/fusijisafefesudumimopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/72318641459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.accessibilite-salle-eau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/jaranitepuzunotezafemoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maximatrimony.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixeruwirukovibuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/lominuwiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/lufobufiwebig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedcheckcashadvance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e87430306---vejupotitepidusifufuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=yamaha+piano+serial+number+lookupPDF 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_off0000dcf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCF8 16512 bytes
SHA-256: deb4ec6cfb29858df088fdfd6087f7442ec682344f82bee6403f7a6f4aa25e5e
font_01_sfnt_off0001078a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FA1 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 2b89d610166c86973fa58ffdd3295efcfd2a94428b6032d8d6070225cc594ea9