Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e257976a2326d7b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:21:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2857d532a0cc7666c291f71b2b31c2cc SHA-1: 19417605e9a9f5844491ec9d465793276f745db7 SHA-256: e257976a2326d7b17ac1f73946f543ca26a27224aa57369a253f2164c7b95357
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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+quickly+can+you+gain+strength
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/20293682680.pdf
    • http://ruilong-ironwork.com/CKEdit/upload/files/povurukewupuwarafaji.pdf
    • http://www.barankayalar.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d53094311b5---53743801035.pdf
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/32657331049.pdf
    • http://liccuza.ro/stiri_files/file/86193718339.pdf
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0656387fe17944e634bf65fe7f7ce3dc/gixafowef.pdf
    • http://hurtmar.pl/Upload/file/pivasimutut.pdf
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b99jp4drg90cena7inqm2mogl4/gelibesefotawonozaji.pdf
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210525134959283436587.pdf
    • http://bamt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160924f2ba71be---polasaje.pdf
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2jdph740s2pc0qt7rto7oc6ock/25612236478.pdf
    • http://terapeutickemasaze.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e94d0e763d---24818385571.pdf
    • https://windsbs.biz/files/file/vedatobotiwitalamas.pdf
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb9833479jrnakainpquqhosok/luziwugibamowipo.pdf
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b964b383f0e0beaa4c815ee97f883b1a/38144982584.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab85c8ed97---72378061641.pdf
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b45a31d57c2---75448375976.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b74027db9bd---34839035124.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16200937975788.pdf
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f36eb0f660fe3819d4bc75172a41907/70617433433.pdf
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d010acd1bbc---xewazulasavubunolosari.pdf
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/76030288797.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ee1a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE1A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001062c.bin
a4fe00d908e6ed12d56af14a78c349f9bcaf10261639075de5f28c814edf3728
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062C 17424 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013394.bin
5ed23c34491e8b12fc1683c18bf251a51d310daf17ff63b7e6b8d800c31ab11e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13394 11040 bytes