Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e39d60ce10ede7e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:01:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 35b99c1c8a9095b0f6364deaab2de940 SHA-1: fc31576bcfa6d4fb445fc4e56c680b93bd1dcb08 SHA-256: e39d60ce10ede7e8cab84089acea32403557f0454ec173f54d7eef7a40322168
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV and an ML classifier as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Numerous URLs extracted from the document point to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm characteristics strongly indicates an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://re-media.ru/foto/ck/files/fumedomuluk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ecoevopublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/mevilelokikokumubedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/91653437303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdongjiu.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-27/20210627132810168997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mu-rrrc.com/userfiles/file/lovetudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novichiha.ru/pic/file/wurejipanirurupefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comodee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d52e3d7be2---kavas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehhs1969.com/clients/6/67/67a0fa02f482ea8575b7cec7429e43a8/File/42655348997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f55580ef778d9205002c36c3835b8148/fipejovajabasizawuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projectbudapest.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d18fcda753---66945196121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogotowienaukowe.com/Upload/file/govuwakuwada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f9db2805b919c2d61869fac50b26d30/lizafad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/073b9d47bbef34b96ea0fab760bd73d4/zonabenugepadumipazaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd04852031b2471398808622ed63b79b/luwuvigonujatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160994b72051ab---zikevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruihuitax.com/files/file/muwutumufepiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f492b711c5---33939534115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sashtraayurveda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/togonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makingthegradetexas.com/clients/d/d4/d4716c73f098ea79da165a2194b6736a/File/fisipodixetof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0qlf7m0t8f6mai7grtn63r557a/41137456041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34f649eb598222e24445c982ac40e933/febufexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/52183459488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/37374974959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c0b79dcd0---20868784649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-krasnogorsk.ru/upload_picture/file/95200547894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=reading+practice+worksheets+for+4th+gradePDF 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_off0000e2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F5 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 82e1aaeb67d1700ea62bd2b30fbb6885a5e76906d61a361c7fb85b2d44e487d3
font_01_sfnt_off00011069.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11069 11156 bytes
SHA-256: f704f6d796e643f87d276441f6b465e57a9099264a77c159cb7d3ef330d97b29
font_02_sfnt_off00012a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1