Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e265e8f3de72d9e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 00:22:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0e55924dfe48f4c22430835a1d19c154 SHA-1: 56a0bef9c0a1a75ef0b97161af24d9962b34d31d SHA-256: e265e8f3de72d9e814509eeed5b03b458e7fa8ca6378fe0ffe3693d8e2772397
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm strongly suggest the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=star+connection+line+and+phase+voltage PDF link annotation
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/rigepowixozafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newo.ru/files/files/rikafuvukesufaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qv7d8pj12i7nr3epnhne06ggsm/42238932859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161215438c2dd8---visarezudoninidobujufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/27208573522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lthq5641hnls5fuiidhlabb1h5/wotesuwotopur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/11686869098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laptopplus.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/83266003387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cfa6380956---34434529720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/73553384150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womensmentalhealthmd.com/clients/9/9a/9a9ccad1be43d50cbc9928f06550b956/File/99363160433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9236643bfd---91326301010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxus.nl/file/wunudaxutin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kewubetexuwij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asea-admin.com/_userfiles/file/20210504005010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyogytornasziget.hu/uploads/files/45544618824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082ec75c9b81---zejumixuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116acf87fb34---ruragakijidevepibusumini.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE709 19316 bytes
SHA-256: 562b56b185237e06a33634585b7764091e55eebeba4deaa8581a76641e146fc0
font_01_sfnt_off00011989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11989 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131A0 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 0372833cda9ce69986b809b1392e472e25035e5ec21a4790bfb9789135bf156c
font_03_sfnt_off00014aa3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14AA3 2316 bytes
SHA-256: 7afa6c16dcbbac45faba60273968d0582ad954ecb9e90d40f5da8039f61cd266