Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eae61f6b20b2a639…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:01:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: d5c966501db0beaa0fa561d71e8c6665 SHA-1: 26f8f0c95df9d2728fc2c30db3f25db3bac9cefd SHA-256: eae61f6b20b2a639c93c64891a232853837fe705f3284598e8bc18fe9a50e888
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' further support this, indicating the use of disposable or compromised hosting for distributing malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the general structure suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=crop+library+android
    • http://1night2day.com/ckupload/files/bijiberepigomasavogib.pdf
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/77871380731.pdf
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/bokifezivodanideda.pdf
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/43594574535.pdf
    • https://sharmtocairo.com/userfiles/files/83501657378.pdf
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/vedowupixasawizim.pdf
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/lizegefisijop.pdf
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451074e2811---51714886222.pdf
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/86413674001.pdf
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78445325272.pdf
    • http://studioingtassinari.eu/userfiles/files/xoferosafe.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f35094236f---27668227760.pdf
    • https://whatshoulditcostme.com/userfiles/file/48130511601.pdf
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/woxirafutut.pdf
    • https://fablab808.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/19476947126.pdf
    • http://summitremodelinginc.com/userfiles/files/famulez.pdf
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905014619906185.pdf
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613091cc25068---26033493820.pdf
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/titixolamov.pdf
    • https://osakaav.com/userfiles/files/tapanopezajewiduw.pdf
    • http://charugarware.com/DEVELOPMENT/charu_garware/uploaded/userfiles/file/zaran.pdf
    • https://millersexpress.com/userfiles/file/69096316062.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_off0000dbc1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC1 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d3.bin
06e562f1fb099d76f07d5b4eba572bb44404f96ba2472036d597cdee670a407e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D3 18628 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000123b4.bin
d2a4993ecd7c460761a33b084d46de2a02f5d5bba03615e26b45ec65e69c8ee8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123B4 10272 bytes