Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de8e1f25c69091a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-12 21:51:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cb442f4afdfa6bdbed7e7f5dad2a0b8c SHA-1: a0e6032564886a6b0a85f6214682a4633e4c0ed5 SHA-256: de8e1f25c69091a39625d59cf2c343293138185a7139b7299f1cf2fd8894a79b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links and the overall detection indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=1+robux+free PDF link annotation
    • http://jenan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19985647482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/15823973599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/filugaselazuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kkslavicin.cz/sites/default/files/file/vebimirod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4bfb036ef1263757c16a73acc36f02c/49308650175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajkylevne.cz/UserFiles/File/nokuwaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeorden.com/media/file/22580314036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/bapumomizopiwamenenewul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barsugo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50529001889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasz.hu/editor_up/47676478995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210909_052139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechb2blite.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/50672291580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132380a30cfe---bugumobudekibabowomapanor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0189a6552---45994080618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyea.org/imageuploads/fenapir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bwawarszawa.pl/upload/file/12206167034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/29636143258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrozzeriabosini.net/userfiles/files/55404406364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue0g14aabdqdoaav355gc38dkv/givepabasoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/relizopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaexploring.it/userfiles/files/31991291548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://literie-depot.fr/UserFiles/file/pokemitivuziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpsszczytno.pl/photo/file/14061488309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalbau.hu/imagesfiles/7322702688.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_off0000e758.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE758 19100 bytes
SHA-256: 195f5022a6f1204cab658cf92dc474d44f85a9d72abff5b845c02402f91976bd
font_01_sfnt_off00011979.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11979 9836 bytes
SHA-256: 9ef3a79409982a96233ec1c060d0425d53b3d633033574149174c3b1c524c8c0
font_02_sfnt_off00012f3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F3A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1