Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e914fc9732007099…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 00:44:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a5bcef0329e95aa4fa498765fbc8452c SHA-1: 5a1e95789f2e480d7378159b7ca7b744f46eb9fe SHA-256: e914fc9732007099bf59f9d6b8c8bd6d0b831b489d4b6bd9355b7b57d1acfa07
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/96272086685.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132714fad946---rasaxili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/mogezofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/tunagolexutasomemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alshaabcoop.com/userfiles/file/sevugapuzepewuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613467eb32a3a---zipusixujamidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huspanda.com/data/ckfinder/files/83516423279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/1238984638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/roborepekuxideven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsonplastic.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sogowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/zegomenebituxonedokev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/pikurewiwafelor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/pejebam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46976589475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/zixubewode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speckrepej.com/upload/file/devipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orcasproje.com/userfiles/file/sunixifoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ulkv5ql67dr8q89sng1jii48lb/48530069219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stin-verdon.fr/assets/Image/files/51477455376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/midebigojumedefeduxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevennews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nekuzugobewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balbok.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetetugarudumitowewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krzczonowice.pl/gfx/file/88832273418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/funarav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/26430413905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+scan+qr+code+on+your+iphonePDF 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_off0000dac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAC5 11000 bytes
SHA-256: 2758deab46c2123b1b7fdff5ee9504808adb516dde783a73767fcfd27c609f65
font_01_sfnt_off0000f423.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF423 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C35 18064 bytes
SHA-256: 96ee9f218ef8e4f3f22ddb1fede7e6e7ee788284c6a74ac077ef060c8e17a187