Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e84d057b6bea7b1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-07-07 23:09:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 2b5c02e769516af558b01cff55120007 SHA-1: ea67245f3a7233b1e44bec4fefba9a9322f8304a SHA-256: e84d057b6bea7b1e3162a173c7824e7448374bccb2c7a23e41fa3b20c06b8e47
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://luingpyrex.cz/foto/Image/file/xafuvekanutisaxegebesa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609668e8ea29e---2037045756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codemessaging.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kijaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2421cf0e68---13642556919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1280cc7a2f789ae23d0c2a718e9df851/simanijowogef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/87117968734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/3942695894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/90846526897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robotics-institute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/trbh8eogamdgn4i8d3vkb5bino/41378172013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0008d9f4fd---jujulafepekovodiruzes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1dfa1b63ac---28972694873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160749fdec502b---sekunulub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a6e337d493---sopuvidupixuvemevukulor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://living-stone.lu/userfiles/files/1728774443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/jewabogajop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u29a3hrfgm5u4901imfd3tk7u1/4685817631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coil.hk/upload/files/mipujofotobutudanexokakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/21487162529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/zeduvanewunaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a225ad7cda5---borom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/itkghvfnafgccgig60l24egpjm/15665138189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=call+of+duty+2+big+red+one+torrentPDF link annotation
    • http://kioskcondoweb.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fd71a4dcbf---runurizopevo.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_off0000e40a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40A 23592 bytes
SHA-256: cf1517228dee9d65065ac9279f3e8c875cac534283faceb3b437f5d5fd777018
font_01_sfnt_off00011e60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13677 10868 bytes
SHA-256: c5dc714f05f01d787716799bd2679e78c659d993588ba1c16824f59fa4f29be3