Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0078e7a8aca58fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 21:28:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 51364cdff67bbea754b5dc579ecedbda SHA-1: aaa77e6b0b4089e480422aa0bb86a552e11176d6 SHA-256: e0078e7a8aca58fb58dad393c51163e7afce20e24c3e437da9a9c319e84b4774
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://iscelenie.info/files/file/48251058505.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqul64roreamb73kpso5k3fi0f/kujakesufivegepusizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/92327605327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/91018058133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massiimo.com/piceditor/file/lowigiruvalovijunateselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wetefupalisito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/kusofimiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613773784eef1---dinudamikomonirafijuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cecev.com/stockages/files/xipaxelivojajivus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledlight-lamp.com/mingyi/images/userfiles/file/gemoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/10956689193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiachuankeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902030655945686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q4r8kfjpdegnkh64sb156rmq53/20308902762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/xotiregedosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/24437793254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.extramas.com/userfiles/files/wudizozodevetujivefuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osakaav.com/userfiles/files/81747694217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peetersinstallatietechniek.nl/upload/files/29028441738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/54226445438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gevenschoenen.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/puvidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/gupetaboraso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonnenheizung.ch/fckeditor/editor/images/file/saxinenidumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=movable+wallpaper+for+androidPDF 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_off0000c518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC518 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2A 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 3954e510b6ade7d986ef80823540186a5d0b08039b400dfe74975fb76e21abce
font_02_sfnt_off0001088f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088F 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 86f5f16981cdac996fb89394737f11608b1bddbb3c6def8bde3fb07ded20a4dd