Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1dc65cc85644480…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 06:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5d616f04d844c70de2ff438a00abff95 SHA-1: c66d6a9391f46b6c6e76ae73f9ef691a0f2b4b8d SHA-256: e1dc65cc85644480f3a822dee03838a099eaa300c8a9f7aa021b09b26b949f45
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's designed to lead users to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of external URI links and a link farm heuristic further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+android+tv+on+android+box PDF link annotation
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73705025455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2ctrading.org/cms_upload/files/dadawufaramozexovipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoachtercamper.nl/userfiles/file/11811142814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srmtteaparty.com/uploads/files/202109230803143773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/61923823093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polesprogettazioni.com/userfiles/files/81377617417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614bae1ae1162---73965394351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/zuzipesekanezofuxoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/52572123504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/nofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/japetidedopopolojusosusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1f608076c---89415135050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/buxebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/44402529686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/2021916721552521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8427d5eac---60559965906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa1e65afec---dosobijixefowusitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobonvino.com/userfiles/files/62835058373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30591833395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scavilecis.it/userfiles/file/16450036182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weborder.cloud/userfiles/file///8985890215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuryakyn.ru/userfiles/file/30032302219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezastupitelstvo.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/javolojusemimamixo.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_off0000ae9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6B6 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 9f46c24d9ed0623c1b553c018eb926bd3a4bb5e9c0cdd1a365db392233a24511
font_02_sfnt_off0000deae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEAE 15656 bytes
SHA-256: 8257344f0aacc5cef8a55a0dbbe52793939ae7bce9ced53e46b0185a3edb57e9