Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8ae27f73ed4b53b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-09-25 01:04:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a1de2bf584938063aad931082337d143 SHA-1: d76f368223b54752892c7cb219a41ff0d79fe2b8 SHA-256: e8ae27f73ed4b53b21de85bbc3a69dcb60fc5b7b7c9918521c1d027a38bb23d0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Numerous heuristics indicate the PDF functions as a link farm, directing users to various external domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ovid+metamorphoses+translated+by+david+raeburn+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://aspirecambodia-edu.org/userfiles/file/21235586925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adproissy.emailingmanager.com/uploads/editor/file/lutesezumutovekivizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/noxifikokejozewepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd0bb822bef0635095c029e59554f5dd/26030744580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rurisnet.org/images/file/47011782264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gjbuyerbroker.com/userfiles/file/44511713947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/27873024908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ornito-silesia.eu/userfiles/file/valexeporijakafabase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilbertems.com/videos/file/26315118483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibrahimkoc.com/images/Media/files/fivovusulatan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bbff09aad---wunesaxupenizovurug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/69809472956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izumrud38.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69602242161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremlizards.hu/_user/file/gorawewinivenupud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/jidatefenogaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/74377271891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/xirugerupabukotororogele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coquicart.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/62809996887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i5mffgu2beqosv77blh8n3q8dh/97291245674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/163054192996043067139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casartigianiudine.busletter.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18745348476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://golf-tout-terrain.com/publish/page/file/10599847181.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_off0000b98f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB98F 11208 bytes
SHA-256: c91c822db0a0f44f2dcb2fc0565b64b7f49764eb71d73d8bdc390707897f5664
font_01_sfnt_off0000d366.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD366 17948 bytes
SHA-256: b835e72e8e5700dbe683f31cebc8051018cb5438d43290bf641e96697a8342f0
font_02_sfnt_off000101ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1