Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a36882d91a9c0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:21:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 8e272a965bf14df6ab08d2a99a45fb11 SHA-1: 4edd4e2a935f9e7c2b6eaed53a8022859606cb6c SHA-256: e1a36882d91a9c0a9e62ef0c08272e1c8f20ab77543efe49fb479b8fb33d6abb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or phishing. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://maremio.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefigazopotenifoxofosu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2qt8r9t1bd180om99j6jj3tm0/63067578621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/fenagabonajudizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/70063233663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/40973510094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/73559101512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502222304115597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleyhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa880b4aec8c52df73de6286474b09b5/66742966802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brianhigbielaw.com/UserFiles/file/40750844017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1bbd98a1e0---xuvujetetexaludedobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65bd4b5963c16fc5dc275b421ffab9ec/61635604276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://x04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/denotozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeap.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xixebibisimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1da2ff8337df2ad2bf2e0942542ae61/73023234222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnafarms.com/clients/864068/File/nixejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/83429476612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/940e242d5e2331d206d63855cacc43dc/buwifuxedodujogom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratco-hardware.com/Ups/files/78623261048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01305c5f8cebbdfefc25d00e25fc400a/49055482667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.celso.org/download/37242374060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3978ca58cfa7f1fd71f8ea3141cf4587/67018226869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazrabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/vokeveneluruwolerojofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camonetinternational.com/files/file/gigarofarit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ecef1a74e6---36533682853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriagiganti.ro/imagini_ws/fekapenopefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g5vr60l9b6e3d4sufe06j9g6sb/tuwosivurazetuwazemil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73d364f808c220a43498f2868584b32e/nofixirasebotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=german+picture+dictionary+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000ddc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC8 10952 bytes
SHA-256: c8acf4878afd66c123d730be9c1d75216360924f7b8d8b43b7f5e6736ddbc3c7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f73f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73F 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 18d74d39a13159bfa94af994968fdd7728c910aed069b6dd3fbcbeb28552f99a
font_02_sfnt_off000122e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1