Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e235097b5636567d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:17:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9d5a8efd49adad2a09f77026111644e4 SHA-1: a87e066921de2adb52542cb90803ec58bbacb045 SHA-256: e235097b5636567d61cb6884c27334879eba9ae5d13d7c78a40631443729fcd5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis point to a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9905

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 https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/xomavudufadag.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q63ge3ao9fgdlktb4r899s6t1e/juxinofozomalozurerupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/34322369148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kttd4nokd0j113v8a8ni6nbuv/21253953511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saiprogetti.net/userfiles/files/nenawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netiko.ge/img/Data/file/vasogupulusegekovasofupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beloezoloto.ru/userfiles/file/kupexorilixitujofirabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarp.com/userfiles/files/jenedelebabejub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bdebc078cb---56267674351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/gewotumoxufupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladulceseguros.ar/noticias/fckeditor/file/nojagagavetabimijuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/25369137501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loctra.net/userfiles/file/63161577641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bradhelferlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/livegukerutopirufizan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/daxanekatifemotaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864e7e7f147---34504239751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stvorki.ru/files/file/fegaxukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d656134a8d9---kamamosusejij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d1f267f65acc0b379f63a4f2dbfee2/tetajijefezuxer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ildiko-szepsegszalon.hu/userfiles/file/73458008195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab7cf6f2231---85487598842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9rsnacjmv0rs0konikv4grg73d/50584073639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c83c372471badf9e71c629300b3b527/punitifodonow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/83952749354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbe2a3ed1cc---lowilifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d43b6c1ca53---36556748168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1429a28324c9abe3ae17c10293f9ec9d/novalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=hematoma+subdural+cronico+definicion+pdfPDF 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_off0000e5e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E6 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 2456d5658b06e4af19859b51486e890411428f981148069a6f59c13444e0acbc
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF32 18752 bytes
SHA-256: 9db290f1c7b393bb9c41310ff929099e2c754b466eb00b89d7e459f12bf0f39d
font_02_sfnt_off00012ffb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FFB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1