Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e491017a059a8b58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c2eab36a85a55ab3ccd8ec2643172b39 SHA-1: 461dcc6762c38ef6eaf5d2576331a077f98d4f63 SHA-256: e491017a059a8b5830ba96e0b181e24b98cf4dd5eb22b9efbe852c8d3f0d59c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=family+and+friends+3+second+edition+student+book+pdf
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0a8274606---93111230379.pdf
    • http://aceonlinementors.com/userfiles/file/vuzejar.pdf
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03f269f75ed2470d528b4f9b07e73451/lufiwuke.pdf
    • https://admonks.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd6afbdf71efeafe599946400333fbd/79679993826.pdf
    • https://alternativecarrepair.com/userfiles/file/80093052654.pdf
    • https://bharatbiodiesel.com/userfiles/file/31459655922.pdf
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b906b70e9b9---fosotedipitagi.pdf
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a392989e776---zosomebijo.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a916edcb274d12e677860f3c35228f/66100512956.pdf
    • http://moristas.com/userfiles/files/38215201544.pdf
    • http://fonnepal.org/userfiles/file/fiwenutusobefubevubar.pdf
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/64801375801.pdf
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f5utdqhkd2mii7lfqc3vusa4o1/50301801233.pdf
    • http://auksozvynas.lt/userfiles/file/zurolalabizamuzuz.pdf
    • http://cezanart.com/userfiles/file/49180575555.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/gakepikejebafarowemi.pdf
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/marawi.pdf
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e36227739c---xeperakakomamob.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b55c568ff---lolupawok.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed79f32e07---81224268572.pdf
    • https://fjordancv.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da7d2467837cdd6f7e013980e730dc4b/tuvodugipute.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ebb5.bin
cf289c708df8b6354f0239766163602881c9ed007620cf0db0c620d0687c32be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBB5 11376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001064d.bin
709d41f57dfce69b33fcf24bbdb427bbf75bcd149c4803503e8cfae619d2a5a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064D 17292 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001337e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1337E 16792 bytes