Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e35ea63b9bee2bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.8 KB Created: 2021-08-08 06:48:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cef850126d4e05c4a451a15730555090 SHA-1: 674b957a18a748a622f6f13fe28923ed42dfa21f SHA-256: e35ea63b9bee2bbf14fe92bdc2c08528c2b18b4788c30be0bdb4a0b43e437315
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://reanda.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210531015510.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/2275099857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfafb9745fc---vaderagumasagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/64617347333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.oneirishrover.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66674954a2cb40373f89f00c0d6dfd6/sivaninesudozetixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a75dd25b72d---zafiguxupaxopeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/davixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/lexexexatepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5766ccf724f339860e021a04d32a3f7/magelegasasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7d18a602d---45196773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e97eac75c---26770067170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/437aab824cdd836f0d8626dea413d5ab/sopawirazubitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bistro-e.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d03315cb3e---tirofigegumun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/tafudigibejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3b989e54f1284fc4c12a79f09d6a4bd/22905191261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/26950673857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weifong.tw/fckimages/file/wixaponoxiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e9b0982e28---sevovozekaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/xuvaxedip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentherapia.hu/files/file/54452390721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lmalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sewinekerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cof5eubqv7q02hbrdil8s0ni9s/zisolesuziloromejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb1b4fe18dd---busegivunuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=la+ley+y+el+orden+uve+capitulos+espa%C3%B1ol+latinoPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eeb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000106ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CA 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 81a4c831029f374bdddbc898cef759a4ffb5e94030072cf4cdb9fd6c34dbc6eb
font_02_sfnt_off00011cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB2 18704 bytes
SHA-256: b82ba3a815f05f4fc5c329fc65fd695a4529a11a31ce0e0bd7921bf1cbc92b7f
font_03_sfnt_off00014ccd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CCD 10948 bytes
SHA-256: a4d78dd3083812109be47b6cca53577e336da0739129929595e3c24fce48091b