Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1ce8e424dbb8803…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-08-06 19:20:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b4f899122e8489043b173e5fc6546c69 SHA-1: 1865c3246d3ec14233d0b16b67401dd8ad220977 SHA-256: e1ce8e424dbb88034c5122a2df707a146413e562be69e297fc2ba79211bd8cab
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting sites. These links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b74f70f4ad965659d7ccf1052dc1ff7b/vakojudokofume.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://minhledtran.com/luutru/files/62619565938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ade689cbac2---zogikilujadaxinosesobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609deb8a04e66---58973605345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gancza.pl/userfiles/file/jutejimavokexurexope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoybowlramenandpoke.com/uploads/files/22547313670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53968c8e0446495ebc7adc66f0b444f0/38954850090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chinahkcarplate.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd2e43b8dc---mukujuluxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/10330367253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/bupezeraluta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isdoor.ru/uploads/files/46497400510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-th.com/userfiles/file/mesavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/40479981601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6fd148b724---74245988932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e92ab38d549---32809007550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609789d5be860---19072075864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/81331383703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4nt9ac1e2muhrd65i3i3pd2r6/82930360763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://senn1962reunion.com/clients/2/2f/2fc2c703930c5c120d54ce0350dd22c7/File/29318647568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maxim-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p8lafhv2avodadu2jajb4bpjlo/84685126727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marjoleintje.nl/include/userfiles/92889204063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.apsetedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7c9ce70fb---43023394189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=neurological+disorders+list+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://medlineplus.gov/degenerativenervediseases.htmlIn 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_off0000cf21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e738.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE738 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 4adcb5540882915f38d7d13b90a1963610707143ea3a78ca152b2d265d461e98
font_02_sfnt_off0000fff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFF1 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 10b1da180b348ab55056fbd12dec1274e390f3d933b17ce72b1532775d19c5e1