Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e04684b2bb01ab4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f311dc8fdcb3813adc1749e01dbdc350 SHA-1: 89ff285a6681b9b90fcc789c64084f2e45c11960 SHA-256: e04684b2bb01ab4ccc9ebeb1b17358f8c62c829f3282ba0ed93abaf30a94c0d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The 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 hosted on compromised and disposable domains, designed to obscure the ultimate destination of the links. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on these domains suggests a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 https://ruxthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixulogolenudonezefedab.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610554712b5f2---kuzur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b31efc291bd5f95e4fdba34f92e22f5/33868510810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/68491507265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d294e33bcc---xapokuzubavunobudulosokej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083ea85c834a---xuwutakirosazobaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esejsc.com/upload/files/foxekizemitog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/55055458685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostsolutions.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/71298463922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilpeace.org/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/manaluwariva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5d7bb64a4---30104588034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasvaripalmuzeum.hu/upload/file/76523654320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5f84b17524---gumolejevutetepipawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8a52d26759d4bcf38083a0d933e4f0c/lavutatadavofakerozopebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/vubulilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6bc95579ffee574b1945e186712725a9/76185980573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifemartrealestateconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/op7dhum4bm2ukuth39avkrso25/96465551018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqmvd3k0jd9rjjsfsflg2rhlam/74688184243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobsai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47179045461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/6967006738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oe8jl7jcsq47tq1mdqonh44gk2/xumobutinijapiloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3b2be9a2d9145465480e8f46d6ebf00/77860835306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5682dc608ed3c95f37a2df6e975a5a8/49646424908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yaslibakicisi.net/userfiles/file/wegegasidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e93diiun5lrq1c9f2kk76a810/26858777388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=license+agreement+template+pdfPDF 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_off0000b8a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8A5 15244 bytes
SHA-256: 69e753dbb69ff9c0d1e800a5765abb66ad3046c48f6f20369ef03b4b5efe285e
font_01_sfnt_off0000df19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF19 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f730.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF730 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 7d592a46228294cceb8c71b2d3c14942b6541b49a2c9b2138dff06150918ac6c