Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1fdc5f3ded950d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-08-19 10:27:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 85bd5718a0d3d00ff1f9e36e815ac20a SHA-1: ad41b454aef17c33d8e715de18ffd4097eb2d06c SHA-256: e1fdc5f3ded950d8528c384cc66a33bac2d6db5765e02692204f8b3fb4ad70a9
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's used to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The presence of urgency language, though low-signal on its own, supports the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://bassbasement.org/userfiles/file/21716131809.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/61141776860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e824c84d51f---79234635027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilocom.net/webroot/img/files/kuselefopevogakufudozaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6ab1a551db28192a5670b8bae8349c9/juladibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scro.ru/pic/file/xilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210721_85CD64E8FFCDE78B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gq92u8nrolh2c9tpb4k1okgsj8/16419705309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomerealestate.org/images/file/rumukej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuga-hotel.com/CKEdit/upload/files/357847396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/87474793151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35adb6e917f2e6d39465c23ee86c2da6/tunifugodefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/bigesuwimom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokuledezogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f1e1c15d4---63431243646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vanq67v5a1nkaaqbbg7b5kgv62/gobutumazefig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9034d4bbe84266af757a34381275f1cb/xizusabup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongxuyen.org/upload/files/rilunupemokibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5nvn9e9u57o0v53fv2fd4695h7/72781479857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://warraichmeats.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075dd16ada88---63387695871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuni.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/72803222745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3fc7024e8f---54541060671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/87260530442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=gayatri+mantra+anuradha+paudwal+mp3+ringtone+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c58e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC58E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dda5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA5 11288 bytes
SHA-256: 3be7f61635f73ed9fecef9ea95dbb975a1ca58d5dbe6b806db1f7ab2db643e19
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D6 16292 bytes
SHA-256: 8c80ffaaf455d59304804ed52b93d6b6c4d20bf5237a55737e0f81b56dc71c1c