Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9aefdb6a4491b1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 10:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4e4657e6c122217c8d0e4b1101bd0bc1 SHA-1: 5e2430cb0a7a91c88c89f7db5ad539db7bc01ff7 SHA-256: e9aefdb6a4491b1b5a1735a66c41129e28f70e6a023259b33765ca64a99c092e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links to various PDF files on different hosts suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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 http://aatmicscience.org/asuserfiles/file/14575396314.pdf
    • http://rapet.hu/files/29210462763.pdf
    • http://bordahusfeldolgozo.hu/editor_up/85050366336.pdf
    • https://regionalhealthprogramsww.com/images/file/refuropul.pdf
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b3ce6ba33---79787948072.pdf
    • http://nwatchonline.info/userfiles/file/43675720239.pdf
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/zukedopazozegizikipo.pdf
    • https://radio-clipa.ro/userfiles/file/tikibokivubut.pdf
    • http://isystem.hu/userfiles/file/nuwapaduwekubi.pdf
    • http://volker-issmer.de/userfiles/file/sigakebudowunikeluva.pdf
    • http://belniig.by/public/file/zaxedotejaborupetowej.pdf
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/veradigopotis.pdf
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/nowivolawirirurevusibu.pdf
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexisa.pdf
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gapavaxenedurur.pdf
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/44608643438.pdf
    • http://tecksco.com/upload/files/moraxalisorusu.pdf
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e2275dab6c---tedububaluwovux.pdf
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc9f15066e---63414559043.pdf
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38c5d968be03309e165c3c7935bbf8a6/64701952917.pdf
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///malapokagixanodatike.pdf
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/sitibezijumab.pdf
    • https://svenjakretschmer.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7795735954.pdf
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/zedanabobubo.pdf
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55124173233.pdf
    • http://asiancfea.org/userfiles/file/38031233489.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hitman+sniper+ios+hack
    • 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_off0000d578.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD578 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed8f.bin
c9f2bfeca3a8f105798db2024f2f714bdeea81a1c64e25c0b19fec606e665d1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED8F 10676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000105ca.bin
e72cfe161d46a6b3dc691fc5656560303a4d55e5c801f6da8ee1422c523efe31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105CA 17136 bytes