Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e410e20518545522…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 00:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6c705764514c38f50e18066340aa2f59 SHA-1: f2e0f5cfaee9300eb5873b5273cc0d9f409bb0ae SHA-256: e410e20518545522c48d89b8b8109b7011c7167106cdcef29b865a10639698d8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content.

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://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39642911019.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://itnetworkconsultingsf.com/helpdesk/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/65526158134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://controldellaves.com/app/webroot/arxius/file/piramilezelimarikunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab0f65e81929c8a94bba49f60a24a40d/68368824811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2e5t4llpt4pvncbhec089bfp6/pomelesakupimumir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3be1e505aede78a87ee7c31f0020972/zifabamilusaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stewartreunion2020.com/clients/2/2a/2a0d9dcdd57715375c9f4393c24df0f2/File/10390023319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://west-holding.com/userfiles/file/metiretibazaravidesune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rkdestate.com/userfiles/file/fatizaxoroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banghenails.com/upload/file/xusogupupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aimhc.com/userfiles/file/71788434842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780e8e8f25c---nunolagosajurukozexurete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5k73ke8nblv08crbq209q6un8/nudesawuxuvufimisonoliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/3344143406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/97067136269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/rerafos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tykhestudiodesigns.com/clients/7/73/7311521ca682816632878891c231d107/File/rutenopadenolukune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qualitycountscleaning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e10124693ccd0c7206a8b463035a7c/85383027787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hu11ef5vkf867kf8cofvfb5s5/xabarokaxumufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/094db46fb2133e896b248ad941a29ea1/23463905029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73e4b86602---76067340579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/53830982626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=negative+prefixes+exercises+pdf+with+answersPDF 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_off0000dde0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDE0 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 3bf73a5cacf8fd032da15e3ca812bf19be106a3fb62d43b1d5df4478fe308f23
font_01_sfnt_off00010c21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C21 10964 bytes
SHA-256: 3e89266516ee84732c47dace7f2d31b98294243f9f910b43962bc4d9b4064c3e
font_02_sfnt_off0001256b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1256B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1