Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e959d0b6baf86e3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:38:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3542585a58d43642ff13722f56d3f510 SHA-1: 3a1364bc672254d76417b00caff26937d116fbd2 SHA-256: e959d0b6baf86e3f6814b6010bceda071f486e11dc6eb771b7501f835b0a0cbf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' indicates a deliberate effort to disguise malicious links within seemingly legitimate or search-optimized content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dyson+v6+animal+cordless+vacuum+user+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/gopavezaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhphucvietnam.com/uploads/userfiles/file/wizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icdtkmt45k5fhqqjrp7u17gtll/faderaguvedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f190511a895---xogowamiluvagolisujujufud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021072121513928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/vasumodexexofoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/33279846227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chineseclothingonline.com/File/12110610245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srrc7bsg49n70m6ure95g2kq1q/delono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade335a65e4---24301740952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16124fc5596a91---75768422213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h9lru9o27s230fteg33v9i3oq/47022407322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igorodstore.ru/files/userfiles/files/99709630026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/fediwefamomenulamef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/keqd6epnl70ddsak0eiiomuv17/97667237651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f237b0253c4a24fd1576d7110b89c64d/buwiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elvirajogsi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/siteliniwamademuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/60296202407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truck-diagnostic.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe552fc2878635a1be5920c572ea13ac/puzaromujizolar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxidmum.com/images/upload/fck/file/junuziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newkontakt.ru/userfiles/images/file/52446540884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acmemask.com/upfiles/editor/files/29092142572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moscowfashion.net/content/xuploadimages/file/34154993198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ranivudipulimevegetotimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e7ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7CE 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 1cf4c5213e86fbc2d2f42fa56ded986ccd0d5d9161b0470a3cdd03c19d67e305
font_01_sfnt_off000100fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FB 17436 bytes
SHA-256: 2580d1e88ba8c9948c10359d3911b90a1e9645049c19552acbd83e7a43744b08
font_02_sfnt_off00012e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1