Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e000536a4e02f48e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 06:11:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 448daaade435d5ef399dd7fe12c406db SHA-1: fb202234733eaf96dd1011a6365c1df75529e8cb SHA-256: e000536a4e02f48eefc52d4a2e2efb820d81f9b621091c339a840501717c7f9e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to a compromised WordPress upload directory, suggesting it's used to host or distribute further malicious content. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised sites, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148c8d952a01---72608531663.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hoangnhataudio.vn/media/files/87453781469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109050031192480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makairways.in/home/makairways2017/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pitinilewetilufurogugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/fakiwixurilisibofuzaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93756794793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wusimexewan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundacjaartfreeart.pl/userfiles/file/22148739573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cu-hinothai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lavokazubimitabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137566e688bc---84450667330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sagobemevaxogixuzonajowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lowdoc-loans.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614916191a9a7---nifojefuboganamuter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents/files/61519538391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromata.ru/upload/files/3993874829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitstroycraft.ru/source/file/zufomimiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaihotelsale.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_D1B5F4260B6BE498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pataniforum.com/admin/jquery/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukozokapog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17692978352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gangwontaxi.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210914_6B3EBC40CE4A5192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161469c29d5888---buxuxipabulidimovag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modernplating.com/userfiles/file/gutufowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakwanudang.com/contents/files/tesepejogagejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opencalgary.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fc74e74fda---51648562516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=ocean+live+wallpaperPDF 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_off0000c628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC628 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 326819ed014fbe57c04142593ce7f07b778649101ca7f0c15e4717b986402db0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f517.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF517 17092 bytes
SHA-256: 1cb4a973f14b441c53a269851e38ed6430f8925991c37fd493134e7c09b342e2