Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1cb63cb07b09f6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-07-26 16:24:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 222312782d865eef62f8400745a03523 SHA-1: 969e52032337eedd069be3b3f60e74130fdd8ee8 SHA-256: e1cb63cb07b09f6f67be04325985434e079149073d31ffd96205e77b0c269a8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9914

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://terralis.eu/catalogue_dynamique/file/49307069334.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbaf5fb6485706dce0e4edd8203230e4/gezixuzizoxiranamometuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fe2b0bca75345f0017a80d46f92a24c/kufifiwuwunuxutefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sfu9tgumsnnh1rvr2abasikj64/75363276932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a6376dbbc3d4ec09e3db359a3014ae5/87761064819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9c853c42a5389efe4dba069a9aa4cb/58261767270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-monster.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/21973525008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kqddpffaaqshqngfcp5dahvvv7/41759541541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/motopafotabozikodul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daleel.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8v3e0qbbvj86su2iuei54lhqom/mevizepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c09638ba80---dirowedazobepananedamafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81b960aa4---80211485183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be9d5c544f---rilimowexavugatufaputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sckprime.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561b70592508e51ade9f88f381f8af74/78365259611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec4fecdf055---jidekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aa8f6a65d07057ac8abb7f80f3bb1d4/nejedaxitogakaberixima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qlbgtkiv6beus1ptv282v7l0o5/bedefajomosetuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/fowifubijuzidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/30554406904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiuxingchaoshi.com/uploads/file/161956313995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2a480e0d1244e87ecbd384314944854/77533256424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.capitalroofingct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096afb6e514c---3995992047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/8811811372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90u9nd4gmri3qq49rfpuucf7r1/dulavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607497704d6fc---40806777430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607043b70cf22---gapino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=roller+coaster+physics+worksheet+conservation+of+energyPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e489.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE489 2160 bytes
SHA-256: a259ed6bfd9cabbc5cc287852ac9fbbed8cf0369b67402fd8c0c224530355e7e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE41 17400 bytes
SHA-256: 140cfc4241ae9e1603ed54bd8ca532c67848fa1a62702407804fcc2cb245e809
font_02_sfnt_off00011c66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C66 11160 bytes
SHA-256: bc80ecf1e583e3cdf1314ea18dbb425a0ba4b5630caa47566ea20d989be91b00
font_03_sfnt_off00013690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13690 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1