Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e893c6d9b852e179…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:31:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6b80515a9e9187f58ebafcaf73f18b75 SHA-1: 8f07cb39efe5a1a4f923c23c365d88316714f7d4 SHA-256: e893c6d9b852e17928200ae6bbaa16bc8f6d1da5e819caa714834fbea820d220
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious content or for SEO manipulation, rather than delivering a direct exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28728611235.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aftaplan.com/works/peepsparty/html/upload_files/file/favubowade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99405104510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmp-traueranzeigen.de/cms/files/19481060527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heathrowairporttaxi.website/userfiles/file/digonokasafujigefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trustycctv.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93034421254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/40974132787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/96649238209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3656edf2843b995e8e5a78154572e7f1/rurodibawadezebekulufudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16317214502758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1amishc2fb.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85402284717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhousemethod.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzuzidaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihi74kocpb7ptk3ne4his70ae2/31070542321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.workbythai.com/admin/assets/images/losagazupuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bb22ae76fb---5582332763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-daily.jp/app/webroot/contents_img/files/vibamewopage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bitewazut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/idja0fkamq60jepiimvsj613i4/dejikupujeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90afqerdlt1f.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42228409329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613927ddbdd7f---pejimikokapar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortworthdental.net/cmsCart/upload/file/jowalupuxosegesakobunoroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fa8b93ce0d---rumimatadidalirazunaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firewheels.pe/userfiles/file/zupudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genegurumiraclehealer.com/userfiles/file/95716191882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+pocket+edition+apk+download+0.16PDF 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_off0000d727.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD727 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 6367409cf82c0ae1b00c7e62f407a92f56a14990349b3150c495606c82db2eae
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0F6 18956 bytes
SHA-256: 451aaafe4f0994f6a2bb6f0e93461f1027c4485bbf8153e85602c70ccc48633a
font_02_sfnt_off0001221f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1221F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1