Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1b0115f6fe9c044…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.7 KB Created: 2021-06-30 19:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 5f827b84efd4b3f1b55ee068b722df03 SHA-1: b4c62cb07b7e7ea5bb4edef99780054c14416d00 SHA-256: e1b0115f6fe9c044367dab1edc0b038840c9c668e2025bbe59e63e5dbcc71bc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rajasthan+gk+objective+questions+in+english+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://lightspec.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0d5437449d3e435cfefb39d22613125/vizutolawodesare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/pigoxixawoxisazolakitak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sooclose.eu/upload/File/gibitukasawamebur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yellowstonewildlife.com/gitivire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theatresaucinema.fr/uploads/file/nabaluzapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/nixugofugilatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57fd6ba29265d5ef93391444483df95a/lenedenusojotorujem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moveo-sport.pl/userfiles/file/fexakavizuperagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ypdtools.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/pabevasojaximet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/guninumitipova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/93404799747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/63491758673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scrvf2q1bf2fk41p4isltjbu52/79223810103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d95e9a6faf87e8224c8cab9d55573fa/50372091973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ad1jtb3dtk8h1htm5olabd4lm/63578846230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d976718f71a---96937933042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://study4student.com/cache/fck_files/file/73032543054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/97897945344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp61.com/clients/e/e2/e296dcecfd7d10ffef0cc83fef253c72/File/biwavokomarinedowifenile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rebpjgfnvukf8a33lfn3due453/12173551507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8cf1634ef---36703905021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/345dq0qfvt7134o0cg3seqsbq0/21788113155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejukonokemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/roxalaxezusesopirutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e449.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE449 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5B 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 4d9a6910ae231e8be96789a816e825bbd6f5cd1168f48772e47ff47c36eb57d0
font_02_sfnt_off000128d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D9 11516 bytes
SHA-256: 1ec12d4518cfde56a27456dd0437f22a5a76820d7a780f13c99a3d047960ed98