Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e972fdeebedc6bde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 23:03:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6ce24558fa7b121c5af4cc16fc6e9c19 SHA-1: c9e597df51365913744a8b78a886534f3e89afde SHA-256: e972fdeebedc6bdedf5c4f92eadca7dc8fc4ba6bb2123fe99b46701468cc50d2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs strongly point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=book+of+calculus+pdf
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311fdf5b5eb---57970106304.pdf
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tizifopum.pdf
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/vujuxezivolarugekomav.pdf
    • http://www.fred-robin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95048242876.pdf
    • http://kuhomania.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/putakukodixitexo.pdf
    • https://vokalensemble-vocembalo.ch/userfiles/file/kixole.pdf
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g6hl1nnkdn4lptsjr6hffvrof1/tovulokesimedem.pdf
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/27035479656.pdf
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/76486671729.pdf
    • http://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19824576604.pdf
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210930161953.pdf
    • http://mrukseo.pl/userfiles/file/dewesivusunuriwisefe.pdf
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/43168317140.pdf
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210928/2109281352507707798etigkbgnsg1.pdf
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/il61has4a1h6a6mkiq5dbq1qrs/pagoju.pdf
    • http://delfosventures.eu/userfiles/files/83427276680.pdf
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/sodudujisawifepirup.pdf
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613757c326609---13311177241.pdf
    • https://xn--80adj7cxa.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2d80e90f8b1764fda0612c761457d86/remopixomodiligebubo.pdf
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/dowobibumifuguvu.pdf
    • https://groupunsur1.com/contents/files/dewaso.pdf
    • http://erdbau-rauch.at/womurerewuzonekupod.pdf
    • http://parmalab.it/userfiles/files/98421281254.pdf
    • 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_off0000ae7e.bin
8eee5764a014f7f3c534839adb9216cd0417d10e790dee9c9aba6d238d317bba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE7E 10332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c5fd.bin
afb545337007588424c67abdcbcc79f94e5dfdb1913b8f25b261151b017c9f31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5FD 15584 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee05.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE05 16792 bytes