Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0fad7d53593ecce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 75ad5aee30647f374cd4fa4c39a1ee43 SHA-1: 2fd575a10696e8ecaad9b4d7069280100c6f2335 SHA-256: e0fad7d53593ecce36ddfdf76a0427ffbb337aa2d95b877f4a16440237d075f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. These links likely lead to further malicious content or exploits, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://harchovyk.com/userfiles/file/dazarelodizejafotozamo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d94c23afd---55176933839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081ea0d2753a---86114868943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b035d2263704ac742e40ea1f1ffc4007/dutezapokizuzapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balaji-technology.com/userfiles/file/39591229422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medgarlci.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ade1f66d13359706a4f5260b723468e/nefujawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marketypik.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/lipusononifaxakajezagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d54b516bb95ac1aa5d8a6973e3774a08/lijegosutojoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/96176090299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607182d8b4fd0---1998475308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/tudonulav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlumacz-lipno.pl/pdrzewiecki/files/puxuzuwemuwapunep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdb4031870f---26423386777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexforstarlight.com/clients/4/41/4125d763bdae894b2c088b8c4c0f4705/File/bibusaremafadeditobag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbd33081d5c7c89761fdb44958df7f3f/xesilajupevagudufalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ca8d3dbcb---19785949787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1dd83e3e6---savosirugepifaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://londonvipchauffeur.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7b69d2b88b8cd5bdeb0fb106a4c9e6e3/vixosinajulipaxegokaluma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e61a2k9fle2iud03li4c6fmc1r/17278202934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/4798930930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d59d339e8---zapirumajamekitus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leganordavigliana.it/uploads/file/madawosuwajowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867f98735c6---zawibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://copy2d.com/ftp/image/file/70751960767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/lufadewitadufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=periodic+table+and+periodic+propertiesPDF 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_off0000ea67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA67 16632 bytes
SHA-256: b17d6cdba41726891f751599a2c858817f21606401f02a38e4929bab6467cc5e
font_01_sfnt_off000115aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x115AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DC1 10648 bytes
SHA-256: 1ded9743e0a1c30568e6436d27d856eebd80564d8ec18d6e6d9e24320b5521ab