Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0e2e65db3b4acfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e013c2131adeacec4178ddf707977534 SHA-1: 3ac65892ac333e9735e98c491c5e26937d66d39c SHA-256: f0e2e65db3b4acfb409af84d70eaed360600edd71ad36d1a428545a7a738f3fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://teknis.it/userfiles/files/fuzawosefiwazidixerugubor.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745812a263d---34147311461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d619ec653---sajonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://florylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fareguvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigpictureresources.com/userfilesbigpicture/file/91494014358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/1996389488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608621f92279d---fakixijerave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontime-taxi.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e40b21abc98a493ac3b32524136694b6/14053012748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c270cb6cd09a2fc9340d9303c997c61c/vosotoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97262990151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdc0d67b7ff---rorejagijujemibenixesati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093ad6884690---33810706359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd8fc57c87d---setitefidavasolimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanakyaaerospacedefence.com/userfiles/file/lexifevamazinazelazopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61216728680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/35294658863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cacb34eb2aa1055d4f1a0bbd7fb36966/dukafuzavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofefepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleinwestor.com/userfiles/file/46616599823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/51982951015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4f4ab4508778f6fbce4bcb98ac77358/3892724192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdxqw.com/uploadfile/file/zigolerizebitegaselalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103be8b4e304---tefutuvatizozotodukilureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+4th+class+evs+book+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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAC3 17768 bytes
SHA-256: c9eeaff1f4db69d34d5e42d80fce0fa57696ffb72fb39ccb26e25e25e74ec2a2
font_01_sfnt_off000118a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118A7 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 9dd27ce00b7d2fc6f6d06ac017a517ec3c0c770d30d3dbc6e80feb7582a4bc5d
font_02_sfnt_off000131cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1