Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9b33ee97b2d58dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 22:57:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 432303a5e8d0b8d6c06c300b98d390d2 SHA-1: 3e7dd524561a803b47eaf96cff376269b311b148 SHA-256: e9b33ee97b2d58dcd5defbb2689daf98755f904c442ab5da2b0a93c8f5c5289f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it is not intended for user consumption but rather as a container for malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://www.asslar.de/downloads/81782666072.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1651df1cbc877eba5c0d3606aabb62d/70722357635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109fcc1bd3b9---22776863798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/sofewisaguwaxemiferosiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://septumdent.com/img/userfiles/files/janiruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099c91e2ea09---dexojidules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb94d5d758b6625df59f438360526791/didutafenudiwekafipun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kardelendalgicpompa.com/uploadfiles/file/78173621970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trips-in.com/ckupload/files/sudedamexosawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://endustriyelkiralama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7prvq6mniieg4oh5491ios6gb5/7295648976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/6837435860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmimar.com/royal/userfiles/file/43424723500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b069c064a7c---61595316147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mindweave.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/geha8qbi1k03klhu7k7pp7rbif/36171707767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/degorigegizik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ada7a91244d---53397058099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q3gp83vsrsokbuhu2bcklu8pjr/85929786146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbafc4eb286---vizilepibalusigusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/25387901478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5d14c0247c---46694760541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b642a58d4c5---xogunexibovosedufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eqletstalk.com/uploads/files/202109011838437486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff115729303---dararatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/47818148269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/49844314747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=learn+turkish+booklet+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e3f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F9 10884 bytes
SHA-256: e8b50f9e009252a3597a79dbc1090fd3cd972154d81a84338823606296a3efee
font_01_sfnt_off0000fccc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCCC 19460 bytes
SHA-256: 07d5fb2ee15d456c7b4efdcc242bc1407dc8c0bacefac8232bb745655eb684c5
font_02_sfnt_off00012fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAC 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 736bad5b1f990d62aed4ecf6620ce51020afb900679dca4ee8c145c7c85029fb
font_03_sfnt_off000148d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1