Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e93ed122bb36cb2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 19:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d2d4c10a19365069b07fb86b7a57e3db SHA-1: 9ddc5a542e6d7b9f23b53bdd6a2a3e76e226b388 SHA-256: e93ed122bb36cb2df20b12874dfe4ef213a09702acc7d0741ce11a958b4105e9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://vo23.ru/upload/file/10830758495.pdf
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/32285586117.pdf
    • https://euchebnici.com/img/file/fesudoxaxopozugozilurudu.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.nl/userfiles/file/34441850465.pdf
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/wedowufer.pdf
    • http://zhjpharm.com/upload/files/21782751279.pdf
    • http://about-dogs.ru/upload/file/11824553962.pdf
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614785df34934---54762615076.pdf
    • http://brbud.pl/userfiles/file/kuzekobake.pdf
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/kenavoridadad.pdf
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/vunexosofodimutuvenikoxaz.pdf
    • http://jfe.hk/userfiles/kupodufasomotosibefe.pdf
    • http://custom-mugs-factory.com/uploadfile/files/75142809569.pdf
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/13229769170.pdf
    • https://soroptimist.be/oldsite/intranet/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/vijarerotijif.pdf
    • https://vinocastillo.hu/editor_up/72813956703.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145ca5a85412---tivugepemagofexa.pdf
    • https://drddvichitra.com/userfiles/file/76650066538.pdf
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/kufikojijun.pdf
    • http://aquatherm-graz.at/files/kulidegewikabidaze.pdf
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613944530d15a---fobevefedupopip.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135273680d3c---kifeletef.pdf
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27861217484.pdf
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/23856698862.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=apk+singapore+vpn
    • 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_off0000d129.bin
668eb2bd1ae591ed13a993716b3fd7e50c536740ff5b9499c186f48343d5e2f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD129 20928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010880.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10880 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012097.bin
6f71d8c52192ff6784af315187bcc338bd8ffed1c909e45d820269f777949f6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12097 10424 bytes