Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c80b359c9d0e96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-08-07 03:55:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 2ee16b57faff63b16d2a3609be474e3f SHA-1: 03c8729a57c62f4e36c0a476da3ba7f0b5338a05 SHA-256: e4c80b359c9d0e963402d65fde0df5acd50e0abbfb1085d69d5f60f9327db115
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised Content Management Systems (CMS) or utilize disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to lure users to malicious sites through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of specific payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/55760658486.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12130709568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chornakorn-packing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22717046353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/tabus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hajni.pl/userfiles/file/jusojenivilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac79953b0cd---14201597714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fc379c9538---pofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717fba1755e---98241194071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607060666e1ef---17101163160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ec7cf4a01d6f8271ab8f80f7586d28b/2534426900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2vxr09c6mc.tw/CKEdit/upload/files/22167766109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwaywest1974.com/clients/861606/File/milug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c51267956e1ef34e0378fe6b43acbe00/91338124619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/paziwaximewikupadotoxaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hfth0792upuej1m1th0qtpqrs4/tobirugifidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertinu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7539553920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nowsingapore.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ff134552b2---puvitubasopigan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sofezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vccnj1gk4b2lpvhunt1j4mlkq1/97443261698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oklogistic.lv/upload/file/xokewolaregiwisiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/jesujixizuzusix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b36f97275---52571422882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f140e9900623c391992589435387507f/jifetirizozizox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fc20e16447---40776048644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2e703dfd2a---21193674227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+resueltos+de+movimiento+rectilineo+uniforme+acelerado+pdfPDF 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_off0000ee35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE35 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001064c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1064C 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 0b3a73551a8f9c262de0e6cd528d1bedd885cac4aef78b2ad582e3ca6e56c9be
font_02_sfnt_off00012008.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12008 19236 bytes
SHA-256: d7f2f1345ff76f1030abf2a7ef25c0a0399e238555ef9502ef2df6b933b0242e