Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0a5a5e051a490a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:27:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 69d091fb6b645bd4a4f9b311a5762951 SHA-1: 1a309372b6989307d34c0c8ecc0a7e280847ad49 SHA-256: e0a5a5e051a490a7f9e975d9a0744d6de3d73c0018bf67210599bb067330b33c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=teacher%27s+guide+science+10+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://epwuae.com/userfiles/file/98374311917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607835e785db8---lodonevizetine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/45422623745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wfuchiomega.com/clients/4/46/46a815049f9cfb11ab63b386d19cdfb8/File/73486936571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8795fc5a76d4a20824637d1d0ba245b/5255894746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mybed.tw/uploads//files/202108121315294028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novamakine.com/upload/ckfinder/files/26991326897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3e50042dc43cbff1cec7c7af48ffc6b/97243289016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmcoverseaspvtltd.com/uploads/files/56440953564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.netcorp.hu/data/editorfile/3834703862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawaniint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisaxowenubigofapokovume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ylphs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20020793519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/3776925035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdesignhouse.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/peresifuzawixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/76028926264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adom.biz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12617027986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xetaihyundai.net/upload/files/3622482504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/povevig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r0hjrq3m405tdkedneo3oqmie2/nuwodigodakejamatomupupem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd51ec5871e9aedad0114fada471ad8/9387916024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/zasejituzepilez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/884735ef8084e6697f2702e76bb575dc/74446149402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb206c9450d1240dbe4667ffd1893dd7/65432244832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balticstroy.com/uploads/files/80786508795.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_off0000d27e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD27E 17288 bytes
SHA-256: 6cfac3c5a67fe531266e0893fa0f92a6bbf4722d0427d1bd8afe04eb092dd15d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fef4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF4 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 6b88992b437c9f52c354e9d204eef0d14640a2e2a5234688e9885c5751b1884b
font_02_sfnt_off00011801.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11801 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1