Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e278b60b6f6ade95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 16:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 87d994f4eb74b921e95d831678a30247 SHA-1: be6920f0345747071ab17fe3cb189ccb1ab6e11e SHA-256: e278b60b6f6ade95951af771d14d007ec2871d919625bba97d3cc23d48ecc8f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to domains associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f0a324c29---85492830897.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://armanetti.com/images/56610159480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/tupunax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magendans.com/imagefiles/file/61543676650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318018d2d66---18050550163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/59913214793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f47d3f1e45---6836908648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://musikkursus.dk/userfiles/file/sedotasarirefovabodegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/79842577453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8da0ac0bb---53188462369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/boreweruzori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/53740476047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/39957861214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomayaku.com/userfiles/file/jebibumevawunikujazuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridagreatescape.com/media/file/vipaxenodajusowuraxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44099738011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmdscu.net/userfiles/file/51742550451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://severstroysnab.ru/userfiles/file/gizanab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135ad1474206---1858594830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straps.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rowanotasisisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psg66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14425861860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solo-reisen.com/media/images/file/84859110721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=abacus+math+worksheets+freePDF 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_off0000df4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f765.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF765 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 1ad0d20b7b0eb479e37d6ccdb8d11cb56051e1e42cb4707f3a517cde47c496c7
font_02_sfnt_off00011054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11054 17592 bytes
SHA-256: b02e632776cafc3a68a61e799d7e0bd11db1e3a0a7538cb8c8909959b13a7328