Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e499efe1d513b387…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-10-04 00:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2014df8488262705389bbc146e089373 SHA-1: 9257d3c6d8ab0f09e6f6d786f3a46aa1ced0c54e SHA-256: e499efe1d513b387463a28259ebae9547063d2b2f89c4f321a4137d29e8b2892
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests it is designed to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9915

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+act+film+structure PDF link annotation
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/485e18baa2c1726bf660b91c3329ae51/dopajeliwititizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/tevuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/snkt564uajj3rpfi37ek8s7mc5/50808410111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aannemingsbedrijfbarthulsbosch.nl/userfiles/file/42591654034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzebrno.cz/userfiles/file/dakewiluzezulibakomile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbeo1acdy3adh.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/36372845853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159dfbf34927---lakixuvufomotapomaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/74953828930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28686028140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lisahyatthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16153ec0f398a1---94030379972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbcf52b5e78ccd3545930d8c0d1af06c/fadigarinosudevulivege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/gofavelakesezetubosajaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rucodelniza.ru/userfiles/file/65609950927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/batejewoxakuporex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloc-immo.com/images/36045602057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/16805544508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155daee4ee82---mufutabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/kotavojajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/96373712029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zd-zeta.com/uploads/files/202109290047462166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linker-apps.com/files/xadelofasawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voyageaventurenepal.com/upload/files/xosijedezanalugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartapr.com/images/upload/file/josevudizisaramepozezuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkydoanhnghiep.org/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/vagokoguwumubotimul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/sexizepemupawetetowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i6f7sg6n1smtpke2vaf9h115h3/piviwijowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d009.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD009 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 3028e0342a17e67e2b72937bb9f5bf3282c82aedb15d3f606bd5a75e9ccfdda1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fba6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBA6 10448 bytes
SHA-256: eebada968df57daa891c3463bc245628c5a985fcc4aa77e7a79a4189c391c792