Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8f5322a0aa20970…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:28:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 90157995360ba37eff79c5b54180e5c8 SHA-1: eadca2eff3d43de076a735f35388ac8109568382 SHA-256: e8f5322a0aa20970fef5619d9a39d9e6a1916463b3e360e133c12b402e6109cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, several of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting PDF files. The primary purpose seems to be to lure users into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05d561100b4999f157fa3fe2dc4b4622/tunigani.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://andersonlawdecorah.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/setanirediluzazudifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/67544679651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/54685442201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wignaccent.com/FCKeditor_2.6.3/userimages/file/20210914015304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieulongcopro.com/luutru/files/julunavivov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/90033957620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4344a2552---xosajipifokigasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e668bd0e09---60340257078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hqshop24.com/userfiles/file/tevusesiwavoluligupol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af56c83845---xikilam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f76911b8980169c729d763b3147341d2/67496841146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladida.asia/sporlegen/administrator/imagetempfile/gipapobuduwit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://griby.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piwavivivefapamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.larucheapain.fr/ljk/file/regubibudaxidugijubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snsi.jp/image/news_file/53705886198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/kegexomofefotin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gusogunofopoduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/666fd1db2e8faaead2da6205b0e7784c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bac57dbd6b---82242070174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/166154c1895a76ce985b6f6c83325fa7/sefutawozugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614504c9675df---61550367673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/lemebapakipomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=the+tom+and+jerry+show+cruisin+for+a+bruisinPDF 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_off0000b1d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1D4 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 0d844dabc608f27c3f22aa951a19da39b35fdec313d3cd24d9f6fd1d14f842ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC06 15088 bytes
SHA-256: d72e1bfb00d44a111f4d96fa45b3926c66b63681570d8b515f85036df1c18b1b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f206.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF206 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1