Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1beea48c3564a40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: abca20778dff501736aa83ed2c2c9acd SHA-1: e00459bc533e414ac3bc3ab2578ce6dbf6d79c33 SHA-256: e1beea48c3564a40096f176d493346eda1bf379d80bb0d2eb19ed76b77ef8120
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to WordPress sites with form upload plugins or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9887

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ring+of+a+mother%27s+sorrow PDF link annotation
    • https://socohoteldanang.com/uploads/image/files/jotenuwinufobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/84285945006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportli.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d283d242b5---47453989464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyestech.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/behfab2ugl28l8bepmv3dk4da7/kifajuwul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/fifanamitebituluriwejunuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be0f429a935---gufuwogoxoxogari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4e536ab1631b7630ded770c56b97022/51486663899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a6f9813ac---48456041956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegreenlegacykeepers.com/clients/e/e8/e8dc17949b7ef813e9937e453902477f/File/35795546864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenbriarpropmgmt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9dd4e3272fb5da4ad7bfefbede71771/situxozuletepedeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bwc.lt/i/lujelazeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uhi2411a0olh466fiiakbjtrh0/25494573824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21d5unnt989r62d765jtu7dme4/88860322337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ef0215bb8---61395263651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097069749661---xotubenaputoxumododizepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d82731a7f4---madetavepadefije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6aaff57ca2---35365313709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stallion-international.com/userfiles/file/50667492414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3un5pcmlufm8k8vdp8utd8ot60/jibetufunuridoxefomibaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pointcookelectrician.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ca734dbe1d---69869724873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijinghuojia.cn/userfiles/file/63475303856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martybermanassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e73c2a8120f61c92f9c1b88ec11aad61/fonusinuxawotalosel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/66528115138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/47140058478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archi1919.com/smlclub-files/file/5042022799.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off000121f2.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x121F2 18344 bytes
SHA-256: b2ec479fe088e17b97cd5a2f6b110d549d57d0fa687ea286e5a23939b9f9e73d
font_00_sfnt_off000109e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013e71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E71 10780 bytes
SHA-256: ede4940999ed8879b38dc31992c5a582c803b5d190d7759cb3194332a11b60f4
font_03_sfnt_off0001572f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1572F 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 41e28937e44f3d130071c14b530e93d7a0fb7f2d730736a62e54ef2acf087070