Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eda37d1efae5d93e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:23:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1e0a3092fa7ac38397cf0d67734c8a32 SHA-1: bbeee284448d030fd507ecc00a7f7250e127e87f SHA-256: eda37d1efae5d93eff51ffaad34f758030849168b2a4d9297c06f22f0579c623
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, including a link farm hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ML classification strongly indicates a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further payloads. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/wotuzani.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136180f7b21c---3378998681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/balapewinumalutepisumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r5835o54u6vsaha63kh724tv06/83564746006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prefinancovaniehypoteky.sk/res/file/wesoritozam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tedifabuzipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupunsur3.com/contents/files/lebid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phdpecs.hu/userfiles/files/51043143140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea6c3386cd---kolenojip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trevelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rezozusugonekusanarosat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://registermycompany.in/admin/userfiles/file/11753673141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd57c44426---waxevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wohingltd.com/userfiles/33499550517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/32709452430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a60f1dd3ab56b8ec5bc4a4a1a00dd7a4/39953638290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hebatkeren88.com/contents/files/41053126561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettocecinacuore.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/wuvolopafanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/87703250985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/13879327883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbiantoanttk.com/uploads/files/bexatate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portalcom-b2b.es/img/user//file/_0245565001631085815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.com/images/userfiles/file/begigugagamutejanazazesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geombiagioschettino.eu/userfiles/files/95063576771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pottoka.info/files/galeria/files/kogelelirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e6a9449447763dd5e23db682278f330/59083288660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=1080p+hdr+movies+downloadPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E9 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 4caae56d8f6197a25f38c9704251bf43606a61928423ef48933c2534dd815aee
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF49 17480 bytes
SHA-256: f4fa21b0e887f9419a2dd985ff2cb3cbfd483c4c98cc7387ab47e201274c00f0
font_02_sfnt_off00012c8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1