Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93ec6b335855512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-07-26 11:42:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7ff3134c15da3e6c7e55de1c563401f4 SHA-1: a75f868b0d4f12b9ed747ddc90091cfe4db927e2 SHA-256: e93ec6b335855512175316dcb001d39858fe62a14af921e854304cf2c530961b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The PDF structure itself is also noted as having duplicate object bodies, which can be used for obfuscation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/sufopaxesofexonozozow.pdf
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/76530954370.pdf
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160908bf84f158---98478572374.pdf
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/25672604448.pdf
    • https://skyzoan.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/58529170193.pdf
    • http://kassa.pl/userfiles/file/36317600589.pdf
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e09f1b446b776b2dc5cc60fb80e3774/zexaxiwimojebasi.pdf
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/gukilipazeme.pdf
    • http://studiosantomauro.it/userfiles/files/dijisuza.pdf
    • https://remoteworkerclub.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e783f6a657760c50ba4b1ecc33cdea/kuperaviramimimo.pdf
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021060933218_989475101.pdf
    • http://jaika.in/images/documents/files/31380276691.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d6b9b6bf83---56877217404.pdf
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e25cc543b03---73038869857.pdf
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087544ddde0a---ropupuzobuwo.pdf
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1465897c4a349a2d638618ea981393f6/58993438669.pdf
    • http://crabber81reunion.com/clients/b/b6/b60cf3d631ff247311937b5f15bedc89/File/25849726517.pdf
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/rinevunexolofoxegomemafop.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uh9qbhuqkhbktlg8g83j3p5p3/vofovu.pdf
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53644239e993478498a17cb002a43878/fobowemovurulaje.pdf
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/nawenimuk.pdf
    • http://ural-resyrs.ru/data/file/680496084.pdf
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b744137f72828d52e761e3de235f40ae/90671514122.pdf
    • http://finsura-lifedirect.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db54bdd5114---ragapizifobozerobita.pdf
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c1ff63d05---71747324929.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=hogwarts+castle+3d+model
    • 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_off0000c1ad.bin
fccd5f35b75bff1e3d3e33e0ccb617c3738127427dd97c2a4c1beb1f553876d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1AD 16180 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb98.bin
387ad7186b575d1633a9d9c6104b0f20e31a9cd43af3a303f954f7cff0e9e3f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB98 10768 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010458.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10458 16792 bytes