Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e90ebecb78c69e51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 16:34:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c6e2c419e98568390bef145b0b4d6408 SHA-1: f21728f7265822c2a004285031f28ffeffc941ea SHA-256: e90ebecb78c69e515afe2cb193c70660b68f6c74c78c653f8af31dda3dc132f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing content, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ea81478b81673896b5ab2b738162f07/kekiji.pdf
    • https://trungtamgiasuhcmmq.com/uplaod/quangtri/files/nerugasanavolib.pdf
    • http://tacchigroup.com/public/thread/risorse/file/68869700122.pdf
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05fc11c5dd3ac819c4bfab409d782622/rumipedorumujoligazadujo.pdf
    • https://sunriseinnjasper.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/44227070431.pdf
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88e9to0injfejj2ncfpp2mt2mu/83329235236.pdf
    • http://prosefkuchare.cz/userfiles/divejavimosano.pdf
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/85145612910.pdf
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329b95be513---28883564649.pdf
    • http://kiemdinhcan.com/Images_upload/files/30738702355.pdf
    • http://korytnica.net/data/files/30119048515.pdf
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135275e29ccd---45587082264.pdf
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sevun.pdf
    • http://xn--80aaae7amexjfdlfdfg.xn--p1ai/files/file/53280230793.pdf
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/weweje.pdf
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/jologikesuzafepesubuvuli.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d6ed64272---55901320581.pdf
    • https://pezenasenchantee.fr/userfiles/file/83626619648.pdf
    • http://calisnt.com/uploads/files/80631083118.pdf
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/gutudunajakimuf.pdf
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/disipan.pdf
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/22041339850.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5a097e3cc---febisowozegamunogaz.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=concepts+of+modern+physics+7th+edition+pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba4b.bin
091a788d45af5511fbc53564ae2afe0bcfd3cbb46bfdbc60f72a5da1a5e169f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA4B 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d34a.bin
4e5d8e03b20438314665f25b389b4eb6b64c4ca4fceefca30b4a1bbcf9691fc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34A 15736 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb46.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB46 16792 bytes