Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e35ed94842232b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-10-06 05:09:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 19643480965f1ad00e44d0936aad1af4 SHA-1: d58a10708ca12f853c67331e972da256b25c506d SHA-256: 1e35ed94842232b6bb9be50a03c8190ebcac675138adaefa30c687e0ea82b227
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a malicious document, potentially leveraging embedded JavaScript for redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=it%27s+the+grinch+song PDF link annotation
    • https://blueparadise.pl/userfiles/file/39185351448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/tezevopukibadusetete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/78909458776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmhu.eu/uploads/uplib/file/73408332274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/tejosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dachastyle.com/userfiles/file/39376407273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/23796523870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haciogullari.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/68808278226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erictex.com/ufiles/files/jelugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2stg986j46qjv3f7eki14me7nv/59736770326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremyco.com/app/webroot/docs/file/11676851806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwalabamaave.com/uploads/files/45839162404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0975811252cool.linker.tw/files/bepisinasenavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/89939890145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mimarathi.live/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/72823224572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcolombia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2201366879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0932d590894d794b33db368b79079266/91355432313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epm.jot-solutions.com/files/korazekoxojozujexejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/28ddaaa3254544aaab6f8a1b7183dabd/nipumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitcostruttori.it/userfiles/files/puwaperofedubipefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153bc0ea4b5e---21140561585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e0c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0C9 19896 bytes
SHA-256: a47c0744a69db84dc13f74b35884f659a0c148012cd2cf845b865af2559d3de7
font_01_sfnt_off00011399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11399 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BB0 10288 bytes
SHA-256: d3cdfecde1a789851c2fd0e86809b141336b78d0ae0d3b172e733278763c6b10