Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e118d350a9577e3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 16:54:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7b2125f0ddb316c36de6f7edce162a4c SHA-1: a17e65be456c231d81d36e71a75c9d2c761abd14 SHA-256: e118d350a9577e3de1acb739217dba8c67fe83cd50d0faf3325bba9b7cccc7d4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. The presence of multiple PDF link farm indicators suggests a coordinated effort to redirect users, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://www.carnesvarejo.com.br/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/76214681712.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://3wsystems.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/linimimirirefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/96212753282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/rolidogeririfewugemiwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gugugroup.com/userfiles/kefulobifovomavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koyomisushi.com/uploads/files/mamawemojijagejuxes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/29504727176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brmc.jp/user_data/userfiles/files/99218302788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transgusto.ch/userfiles/file/17260375065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://darienhigh70.com/clients/878490/File/basitunugidefolutigupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/57045307556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://certifiedmoversinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/746d3c1c19047324a65f603b954c3750/vagonejorejipuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16103088ad370b---menirinodujekalezis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/notibivavikazigej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99926914913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retrofitoman.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kusoviniwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/75981612788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokoladenbrunnen.de/idata/44680357972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca62838db8ac6fb289eecb3c8fdac456/97587964141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/buwebedoxefasojuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e10debd720f---mudiginegopoxofuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbefeecfc0f---mugewedubalakubagumuseme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859dc6a0598---gepesofawete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/57770301308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160856ff9e1738---48663353587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatnice.club/updatefiles/file/dazoxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=can+i+use+ps3+games+on+ps4PDF 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_off0000d596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD596 17608 bytes
SHA-256: c4a4e67289e26d383e54bbdb6317f733f62b11b65aca8a72dd96dc62a4aca017
font_01_sfnt_off000102da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102DA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF1 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 42caec10f543153d545dbd951062bbe86e7cc9c21996492f9969684790ee3e19