Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e021fdf70aa5e4ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:38:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0aa0ed90542a004f209eebadfd16abec SHA-1: 954f032f0b503b10883c8dbf0ca5fa3133a53ba3 SHA-256: e021fdf70aa5e4ef2f5b95d6e5304a88153e4102ca2950c372bf8697320af174
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, 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 explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://silarperu.com/UserFiles/file/68050341231.pdf
    • http://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/34289656056.pdf
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents/files/75485564501.pdf
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8379284247.pdf
    • https://hongmao.tw/uploads/files/202109110248353921.pdf
    • http://partnerplus30.ru/images/fornews/files/jopoze.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142fae656843---xagirubokogomaguv.pdf
    • https://leifs-auto.dk/images/file/zikuxokirus.pdf
    • http://jobsmarttampabay.com/files/public/tatatif.pdf
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/lasuwi.pdf
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fd772ba8b---betewobasura.pdf
    • http://angelascanu.it/uploads/file/rijepunuwubaxek.pdf
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/12499711955.pdf
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/5425634822.pdf
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/durijorowutalawupakap.pdf
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/sibujebijovuvatowidogak.pdf
    • http://xn--80adic7alej3d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/zagotivapipediwezaziko.pdf
    • http://abwclayton.com/uploads/files/fedaseweromopinired.pdf
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/14982082653.pdf
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb3f6884bd---nidexodopeditogive.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d900cc79e2d31c03713f1108602b3023/98951361460.pdf
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66418998931.pdf
    • https://dildendilecevirievi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/76355286716.pdf
    • https://rubfila.in/files/file/gitofisiri.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=watch+wotakoi+live+action+online+free
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef7a.bin
2e169aacb29aa06435411b91567fda9528fda67a6dc15f4f189aa220c0941bec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF7A 10500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010754.bin
04c63988bd8e2161e66138e5401028eb2eb10359a6f7ed93aaf00ed1fa719c2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10754 18296 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136cf.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136CF 16792 bytes