Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1d429ff867ef904…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-08-18 03:33:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3cebf121e0aedfc09ef00b3c8411ef29 SHA-1: de0d5945fc59eb901d2fdf7af15c0f14a5c44673 SHA-256: e1d429ff867ef904ba8d3f68866d0b7a485e3f3df4d646e5eaca74446ca01ca1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The PDF structure itself does not contain readable content, but the heuristics strongly suggest its purpose is to redirect users to external, potentially harmful, sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://banphimchuot.com/userfiles/file/91185983421.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c6b81227b---37322283650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c3ee5703e---75034651838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konzolstudio.ro/uploaded_files/file/golexosixorudotapom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimoandyuethui.com/clients/69227/File/pegukogofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4epd1sref77bdsqf5d3q5p6r7/11407327764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1a4f75bb54---73407544660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1a66433c46750d25c3cfc0ca85fa9512/mawonowopux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/57723535877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d2cebf2bed---tixogavavijufuligusebupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/63479035352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f91463cec---88999346358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turagent007.ru/userfiles/file/kulabidaduborabil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wickedcheesy.com/images/file/nerovufamidejapagilimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5889fcbbf080f008ad3026a2a42454b1/1086094130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/zelewatarokirajuzonog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bugaboo-buffalo.eu/UserFiles/File/buzimujejinumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dakotaterritorydevelopment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13389807836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjar-tech.com/uploadfile/file///2021081203300466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00bbe323a3---saluzawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ee81e19bde3---48132661088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42cfa4ewb0a0b3fwh.com/imageupload/files/sumaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02375g44tsmjcqhon8ns3keoh8/96700157262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/zazeronasos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=discurso+para+quincea%C3%B1era+brindisPDF 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_off0000d8ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8EE 10956 bytes
SHA-256: e4eeccc609870c0ab297a4448d21ac863c53e4fbb0d3eaad6a067380cb0d5f0c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BA 17804 bytes
SHA-256: d50f6730eb571466c823bb0ab1f51e8cb7908999d1a9cc5dc7758f0e25bd992d
font_02_sfnt_off00011e6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1