Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e516108c2f0b35bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 12:45:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eda6d56bdabc7aa9d527b4d69f8ede72 SHA-1: b7aaf0c4a297b2972f484828d5b11f3374db420b SHA-256: e516108c2f0b35bd04ea28eda8728f2cbe1a9d22f6e05903673b1e484b50063f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable due to encoding, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=forensic+accounting+articles+pdf
    • https://ebdaatcoop.com/userfiles/files/48745388510.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609684604dc34---betutulazikuvijir.pdf
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ofm7hqi4s3jg154lia150i51cr/nofikorisaxoxisenanuvi.pdf
    • http://f-okinawa.com/img/tmp/files/rusirudiluput.pdf
    • http://bjaimama.com/data/upload/2021/07/file/202107031528167985.pdf
    • https://polskieplytki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de30d68b3e33de06cf5f270edb525d0/15197277082.pdf
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b25bc2f3d4ecf3bbfe881e7b829772ea/rabixabevokamuxetaparu.pdf
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/52865028460.pdf
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/59766341988.pdf
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/27295840326.pdf
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/giwixoga.pdf
    • http://yavuzselimvakfi.org/resimler/site/files/59678391163.pdf
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/43418643601.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef2422b24f---bemebiwazuvakarim.pdf
    • https://immobilgold.com/file/melumajadoxolaxibaxuse.pdf
    • https://noriupapildu.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidabitaxusiposepasumo.pdf
    • http://divorce-difficile.fr/userfiles/file/55467912530.pdf
    • http://5mal4.de/moneyvidya/web/images/userfiles/file/98406010333.pdf
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef94c02150abcc8aa7495f2aacb62ca3/22402861127.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4cd55c917d8019a260719809602d8f01/79654702207.pdf
    • http://alteredcompta.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/witimexokowuwo.pdf
    • http://ezibra.pl/upload//file/24651687697.pdf
    • http://thebaileyfamilyreunion.com/clients/6/6f/6f45d7e5c9279c15d0bd3a3fa6949618/File/2736893838.pdf
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42442826273.pdf
    • http://schooldistrictservices.com/clients/f/f6/f6ab1571d2cdf5e569af7b76e288b17c/File/komokifa.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_off0000b56f.bin
e72795a27d16ce4bfaa80c9ad997ebbbeae30ce5625ed79714e8f82f1193b2e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB56F 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ce78.bin
51082bdb67df54c84cd6b11e1c4559b226e4402a16cf344a5efb5012c490852d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE78 15416 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f494.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF494 16792 bytes