Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e895ff8893e8bac9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:36:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e08e5a7cac244e72d1d71db018890035 SHA-1: 407260a4f7603526a6a0e4d28da5e8b1d6450518 SHA-256: e895ff8893e8bac90edbd16576602c5af5fa44aa315b628d77b6917ae28ae6a0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of external URI heuristics and the nature of the URLs point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=quik+android+app PDF link annotation
    • http://neteyes.eu/editor_up/1600181574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e99c41b4a---vowitavup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/71545580618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-sincere.com/upfiles/editor/files/70578654426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdadanang.vn/app/webroot/assets/files/97114279889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tkhomedeco.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210914111202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ausztriasi.spawellness.hu/upload/hirlevel/files/vesizujisatujagope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a35f406d06---93310174812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrybalko.ru/files/lusipikeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klick-tipp.at/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/punijuxaxijubonolafiwutum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moretonassets.net/userfiles/20753366682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monarchiaerembolt.hu/tmp/48858439444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59451168473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weforyou.it/userfiles/files/47685699208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totounited.com/contents/files/xexumusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arucax.am/user_images/file/woruxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologocarmignani.com/userfiles/files/84568911912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mlsy.cz/images/file/files/32835364326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144e4958ecbc---jefajuwafarixagolemurof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.barbazan-debat.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12259496690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db1e79ed9f---siresawese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://westernmaki.com/uploads/files/16275271600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baoveantam.org/upload/files/50008589480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toroisg.com/public/images/files/vimorowato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jysfh.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906125225779664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermocomfort.ca/userfiles/file/80124866805.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_off0000e873.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE873 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 02184ab4f448e26497471370b581e9e385c233dd04294c4823e3a8db2ac9cc33
font_01_sfnt_off00011769.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11769 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F80 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 817e5ebded2ce1dc0bdea1fe16201997ac7d2d16d587241aa8a3e51c1c2ecad8