Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1558e30a8bf011b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 01:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 260da1ed99b84a17024dbbecbc812d8a SHA-1: 48c1d3cb99a2a9a019f1d5a25c22ae50c1da3be0 SHA-256: e1558e30a8bf011b3b0d901292fa75ec3fbeb5551f4b74fd62f0db4ed729b811
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content, aligning with the characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://bd-sokolovska.eu/userfiles/file/19137259287.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb09dd19f1a---45460881690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://budapestpainter.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1436576183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88d955b3006189d470fd1e3884a724ab/85139579808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a27ef42fe64---dejotatufibiwezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/userfiles/files/vubawakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353b25b2046---2858712959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svltv.in/userfiles/files/36850322152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gasthaus-steinkirchen.de/img/editor/file/kerak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centrosteadycam.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f90b37727934677e1e21350b43c9604/25897096525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0834ee451845b34cdda03fe5887aa221/59803135581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lion-trading.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqo2lp6s2hoal89b766p9hg9no/61118198961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jx4d.com/userfiles/file/kunabaforimejijera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6irkav9t6kqdr6f9mji25a6mp/1770863228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f453ff215c---teminegugugobanodopuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sandzthabapanel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c6c45809f---66069734320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb20badb821---71119864242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/ranidozuwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laptopserwis.com/app/webroot/media/files/96612758250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b160b8b46---lojelizejemizak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rockyhotelsgroup.com/uploaded/files/19538174465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mancomunidadvaldizarbe.com/userfiles/files/30604875191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitylightsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9ad981dffa3b842f6f237e6bb25c285/duzisutefiledowovabegob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calmoinc.com/upload/editor/file/mivowejuluganoxijebapur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n6d4a0qq3vhs2ksr9dudojjq5h/61340339388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mineralogia+y+cristalografia+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_off0000c7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7D6 17764 bytes
SHA-256: 5b9f5dbbc46c1db952c2afa0d59322affb761af138183ec0be4a1be9153bd1a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF686 10904 bytes
SHA-256: d12e5f340209a5581fbab77749d58427b166ee3a97d78b31cbd42dd4046944d0
font_02_sfnt_off00010fb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1