Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e96aa599999e4369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-13 15:53:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 310ad962304c51c91675c73be7859e26 SHA-1: 3541d2c187be90dfd8b01ace524c69a17a501335 SHA-256: e96aa599999e436947e00be338b84ae6ad7d7ab08f03bb7455418e62ae23c2bf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, as indicated by heuristics like PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM. The ML classifier and ClamAV also flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to lure users to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/punavowotejaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6d1fa48bdf89e0fbf22181a0c487ab/79632188121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b28ebb5113d---gofaroludexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puppiesulove.com/clients/7/7f/7fa6d7836ea929643a3c23f4562b158d/File/89110845880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/gegisiwurewamukos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0a3c065d075837081ab97ce1889dba1/31333239618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/73408250923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607036ea7faca---27237224071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/93208399993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradzo-ep.com/uploads/files/wimub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raiders71.com/clients/4/41/4134020f2f298c111575624a380fabfc/File/dorelagamuvozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cabsfromheathrow.com/userfiles/file/90464724357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nsdn3cdjjqjcgmegd4jqj58koi/pifobonajemibitureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karmand24.ir/basefile/ehotel724ir/files/18856990727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jujifinakiforoxekofex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mabcfhfu1rk8m24sp4mlqe6940/29646872933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fvrh1cqqi0dkb48ns63thejb6/gujoxuriwudelukami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/70597124944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a94ad867de2---83077888108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4552b61b0a64afb35f9786b753ed2b3b/51925916510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piri-piri.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darivifodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raloxipobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europeanprofservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085063398228---ridadutixunuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aokman-drive.com/d/files/zonobopifotimek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=annabelle+creation+full+movie+online+free+dailymotionPDF 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_off0000e546.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE546 16836 bytes
SHA-256: d6aa96686f66f337e8ef4fd0121a72141260cd7496c71db0de4eda66c7708ca2
font_01_sfnt_off000110ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110FF 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 0e45208b78686796d078f88dbbeea473b4282c5887a6d8c49176a527e86b4fe8
font_02_sfnt_off00012a31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1