Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e23fa8dbb094fea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 18:17:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 271865b4756641a81af10fcf32596f4f SHA-1: 48c378b259a3cc2816bf4fc56f77e658371f5dce SHA-256: e23fa8dbb094fea5bd7443aafca8b4ba7c280f32d252f48d73d4b2f0536a1c62
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure points to a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=instagram+my+profile+viewer PDF link annotation
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/85091896154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/zujixulotafudus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ac86e166e---zesazopap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jawarakreasi.com/file/nodokovakugegupuvoxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linkevicius.com/upload/galery/file/lonaluzuxuwosubupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/87862647804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neksav.com/upload/ckfinder/files/78716222405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serviceelectric.ca/userfiles/file/95333559634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spokoino.ru/i/upload/files/96358390732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u48v5aid5g1bribhhqsk3p3j97/46467898208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanarfabrics.com/firma/files/vedopatani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f81c473af0b6b72c6c4187614c2899b/3604791761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jm6vb9kfik4n93sp1lmjhjbvap/xaruxoxexivokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/10752279174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunaweb.co/bg_image/files/mobelulava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunpix.ru/img/lib/file/37800486578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geteffective.biz/uploadfiles/file/65237788167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--q20b13r9leepaeb.net/upload/file/202109110156449575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/96466825180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/wunededituwito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a6b1725a34---basutava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morakothotel.com/file_media/file_image/file/43629718390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/43750976963.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_off0000e557.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE557 18184 bytes
SHA-256: 901018858958d03d22a671796e5ae4a2c99d9dfccbf56d7fc329d30be696a22e
font_01_sfnt_off00011413.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11413 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012c2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C2A 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 860e5d0b9b483397198951bed9758910c8616c6281dfed738768aeee13885257