Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e906f00c03d4f9bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-06-29 05:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: cf829bf0294c07b03f52a47cae42b846 SHA-1: 83d5259fed37801717b7776b40aff1254c8c98fc SHA-256: e906f00c03d4f9bc7e0f49147dfd3039f42cf321ef2827dfee77d48779f674ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, pointing to numerous compromised websites and other PDF files, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm indicators strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9927

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://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/252152839.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://envomask.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cab5524c572596e34c50c28ab353171/58141696006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/zopodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfc24cf9a07aa357d73f3240d7e701a8/buwataluvepanarovage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/tujutotuxezejosevise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorisemitchell.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/94528268442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987b2e2e5d1---tejuriro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f57cddd846---babuzegawunil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bec04ad5898---24593171964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f0863e8bf8995043c0462959cccb626/11744059386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ebsjosepirosamaria.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a700b679579---17733737663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5ca1d061a---45438175813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simonide.org/userfiles/file/patuloputipafatinapesipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppuhperspektywa.pl/files/edytor/file/17951699684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b8e8f20ab0---kulumabepaluvojavekatobew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/vipegituxizafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9eb45a2aac---vedilemuzovulos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1824dab339---jinikopedabagulaxatodig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triangle-electronics.com/assets/userfiles/file/rutela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f62469cf9e---31107770415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb19fb4862---zoxarategirizexalenoboguj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dlt-nkp.com/fileupload//file/kupebekaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takiminsahada.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjn31922sqh66s0f637ou0heis/6216538686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=all+codes+for+idle+heroes+2021PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f72a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF72A 10484 bytes
SHA-256: ab05ae35f4c974548b908576fe73f3ca7f7270d6dd4cf280da066666b1c3296a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001273e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1273E 17260 bytes
SHA-256: 5e33fce8726e83e724e5f8583c9416af690b6fba5059afe2b6b257e1a36173f4
font_03_sfnt_off0001544e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1544E 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd