Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1359b1f25cc2c7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:20:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 0fb272b5650f3e11729f2fd2750c17e7 SHA-1: 8b4082df61a7bd9a0540406e984e989a6f5ce639 SHA-256: e1359b1f25cc2c7c523a9d55d69238316cf227b372046df175e6e0e6b3343d98
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it's likely a phishing or malware distribution lure. The file functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics and the use of compromised CMS upload paths strongly suggest an intent to host and distribute further malicious payloads or phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://sentralperdana.com/file/45970343628.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80af0325ece7b709f71c48249b73b046/32335146267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/1349661546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tootooair.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210618_08752FE243AFA1B3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e022345828a2ded7f5fd15cd882afdd3/ninexonaniresujorovare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cimkezes.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10020482467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpgny.com/userfiles/files/1169595561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenlivinggarden.com/htdocs/UserFiles/file/56146444127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpworld.hu/data/pic/Image/file/5791153896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/6124258520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6d827908a3---lavolakuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuspsurgeons.com/userfiles/file/kikovovesopijevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gerunovojalixuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d74ed6ecce---pusosozivese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d3c429e492d1016812ee53edd1151c30/76272445857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070c696aa92a---tasilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertcomptablecourreges.fr/michel_courreges/userfiles/file/45044465670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82dc4dbbe051d1eaecf17f8fd5e9c163/15688777045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/tewisikijokefifojabuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/39431476763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c891130d97---68416156140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609870b57347b---nusoromaloxugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metricgroup.it/uploads/file/danipizasesoruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiuyutv.com/userfiles/files/20210829010522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/fivalavixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff1d55809f---45067859540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=you+raise+me+up+organ+sheet+music+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_off0000d604.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD604 11104 bytes
SHA-256: da586b688159329339c39a1c26445d700bb42bf85f4af03b48154f004cbe9cdc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000107a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107A2 17636 bytes
SHA-256: e24e27fdeab0b43be09a16ea7806cf7428c491723f1dfa290133955c76fd0ed1