Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1afef4d5b79610e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:35:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 6775ba4b13bf76301c98e73c8879f518 SHA-1: 1a3a30fbfb913ce2543d8a625384f42720766bf5 SHA-256: e1afef4d5b79610e62522e2b15485bc714f31cb2992d075cd76f408ee5b02e0a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea54cc441c13326449f3922240bab54e/44555231817.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/29/file/20210629_135623_183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9mvrn5cnr92qmq8j0s1iapu593/30184027494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/89402964500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio2.com/contents/files/39850448141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d98c331a6dd---gidilenulegilosiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01773f5a85836445585d1e0b58ddadfa/40583092139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svatba-emi.com/uploads/pages/files/10537029195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/24554205981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3b00614a5---14556649454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5dde1bf54525dc86f67d86fe721a7dbd/84415775763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.info/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///37133891140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/berulizido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harteron.ee/userfiles/file/21747020726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/53111118213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trexanh.net/upload/files/60665799523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/peminerenatelut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spoanalyze.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3693a245a164e5f7c399fc5a0e6eca4/9792475143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc45b4d5644---10102663134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160758b407ae2a---zubetabafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prtl.pl/userfiles/file/pezutamejakezelim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fortlauderdale-carservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093fc98833f1---kasiluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f311ceddd---legalujitowomaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7bae7b8970---pudoxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608427b36079a---dosiduvejavewanuwagetipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=upper+limb+muscles+quiz+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_off0000d8e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8E6 17792 bytes
SHA-256: 7f138af8fbecf3bddb138880471d830632c84aa2b6e6373e56360dadfb9608d9
font_01_sfnt_off00010677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10677 10748 bytes
SHA-256: e256b91efd34eb37344cc4cb971d51fa33c92274ef32ff1ad9a74ddd488ba869
font_02_sfnt_off00011eb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1