Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9801a01749ae654…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-06-26 13:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: de838943925081a5e18d1b762ff7aea2 SHA-1: da4804a96585667855d24c51a56bba06046cb6e3 SHA-256: e9801a01749ae654e4183ae92cd142e0b8ed7bb782697ffa31b79b5dd5b426f7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and potentially malicious files. The presence of multiple links to PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload storage suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://medtek.vn/storage/file/xezar.pdf
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96e3edd3ecf56c1592bc9ae0bfac7e04/xosaxokogedepi.pdf
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b3553acfd1---91521219804.pdf
    • https://cvconstructionsgoa.com/pharma/admin/userfiles/file/gekidulovudedu.pdf
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/35077247144.pdf
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/kawepipudakoguragujaki.pdf
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46867f35332f64c6eb5695c1248ea442/73505231334.pdf
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drrovuuph74h3n8le8oi17bta3/tukijudeg.pdf
    • http://fobosgrunt.ru/files/ckfinder/files/xamumewiboserifizojavu.pdf
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents//files/zomijegupuguzigajeloginu.pdf
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/66667321458.pdf
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7a27e7074---watupuzopokatijakoze.pdf
    • https://tiklatakip.com/calisma2/files/uploads/1456048400.pdf
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/81452695340.pdf
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3754eb52c470aee75a700aafe62ad25/xavedagaveka.pdf
    • http://wabasnb.com/files/fckeditor/file/213222001160ba4f6862473.pdf
    • http://haiphongcontest.com/images/files/faxapivosebef.pdf
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/losife.pdf
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59af0760a6---89279227932.pdf
    • http://gilbertthomasreunion.com/clients/5/5f/5f56fe696be94dde62972871c8a9bc28/File/9089043350.pdf
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/ravevurupaporuru.pdf
    • https://www.rogierstoel.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qfrptgpqr2gcpkhmi674nnqp3/51168907382.pdf
    • https://pyhm.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38d2qqbgar7vub2gjrpt8pch53/lajek.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=brooker+biology+5th+edition+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_off0000c88b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC88B 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0a2.bin
d47f4b2b290bd9feb01615e27061f0e16ad4696ca2ac3a3d68bdf00d9849fd56
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A2 10980 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9aa.bin
37b877fb2203fc5f5fb751fe33bde831bcab372efce7a6311939e7f6a8c7d493
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AA 17388 bytes