Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1a4cf4cc44eb6cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 05:25:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: be238812de7858cdcaa47f28f26b7376 SHA-1: 6c3d8c1fe0ade7d2526efc7ff545b49eaeab509f SHA-256: e1a4cf4cc44eb6cb355431d9e2b50490d9099ce67868eb89f0852bdda5596cf4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://dynamic1984.com/user_file/file/xuludotarinutuzixuso.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/vagaguxajoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lubamabajuzazafitobipura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1625025681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/2033168649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.esthemed.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc5d5b36e10---sudolimewepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jjmm3pk0par1vdkf2n1ae8jnf/33537440376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/190be4b280ede31632e88498a2b95f82/doguperepasenemalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irishheritagesociety.net/clients/7/7f/7f3653e4c5d791bf76f28d2bf9929747/File/demesejuximujusiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c431b897878---29152452234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpspcb.com/uploads/files/makepagovugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084635796bf3---42857009004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baadffbbcea---81878654299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/45022136229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44avte2n30hk34adovgrcme9o4/90540653740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faradbox.pl/files/file/xopatedavotixupoxig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607589a0ace42---74564734017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021061608090533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a3e5e422928f8ce41be0102aec7ef3b/lupapiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.segurosfacility.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160743e6c564f7---57748036046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e4e984739f---49616216231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff1405b4c3---78164728555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c449bfb2ecc---61892094672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/46837564342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=causes+for+steering+wheel+shaking+at+high+speedPDF 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_off0000b8e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E8 11088 bytes
SHA-256: d191b7d583f78ee972ed25c1396fde73ed1f84fb464c9887a67c07af0331b954
font_01_sfnt_off0000d290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD290 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eaa2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA2 15476 bytes
SHA-256: 15fc2bcf08ca96c0ed9a788b2da927537096869b34540621b0de35db10ad2ca7