Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e00e3546d6bbc531…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-24 05:32:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5cf0ef0f4b07dca28e79570573f253da SHA-1: 74e6371e899d3a1401cea97c8a633872efc5e663 SHA-256: e00e3546d6bbc5310324937867468961f2ecbaf50afbdfb0347bb62273bf67fc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack.

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zen+jiu+jitsu+white+to+blue+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c4442ec667---sofagetijox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144909481310---vuferiwavotakudujuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902042346282118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahyuh.com/uploads/files/202109081747532942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artsar.pl/userfiles/file/74135541969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/140906342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/69108763556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/61532970868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europartner2.pl/uploads/dumaximinolez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/16999056294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/39731607826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio70.eu/userfiles/files/kapabinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.net/d/files/susoladubofisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/vinewoturimegidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/zevolesuzeluxobotigipexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/4665810050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614658ee39c6e---25208572769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loonbedrijfschimmel.nl/userfiles/files/48772900402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/xosanamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/77972285894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/4976885485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/56223176286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://89928386.com/uploads/files/202109052137453777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/64774054016.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_off0000d26a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD26A 10752 bytes
SHA-256: f6e537c7ce39490f3526bf4459850adac20214f63af1a959c3a9fa765f746bf7
font_01_sfnt_off0000eadb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADB 17976 bytes
SHA-256: ab333221fb8b6d5015b7313e80ad541a4823953487a9fa017805a7950e005984
font_02_sfnt_off00011977.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11977 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1