Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5230ce65f0807ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 23:36:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c98ab6689ee6c9d035c8fb15834ce331 SHA-1: f586e6f13a0726f06a1ff08a26d7befd77242327 SHA-256: e5230ce65f0807abb59052ffaacfac886ea9cf1aaba0837f166f28dad03316b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URI heuristics and the link farm structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, potentially for exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://www.audioclinica.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tikg6kq9t0kvoidlgikelvc2rf/92996325616.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ptaki.info/imgekoprojekty/files/54998019024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0561eac8fb---golexobabofasisoduxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16114d6659d166---3324567532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/nokemosomefesoreb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conelser.hu/fck_uploads/file/85828269421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chuyennhakienvangvn.net/upload/files/14087947206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dde40cf6b4f2122a1f8248b2eaaa8469/megodijebaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietkewebbacninh.com/webroot/img/files/58854649675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hosungtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210819_A4010DBADF7457BC.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chris-arnold.com/userfiles/file/wilino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l4o0gc8rfe6qji5f74raj1gsu6/solesupunapav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/16632015780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecsun-moscow.ru/docs/file/pebitekijefoloxebewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lorenzonimmigrationlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f0926d31cf7---65567530415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-media.ru/foto/ck/files/62925002933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ooj6c5t4toffll09bkft2b2oqk/44404177909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9728d32969ddbc5ce283eeed3de8c4b8/wugesedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sporteambiente.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fusejolimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sgestrecho.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b292cc13ce5---30011812607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d53d1eaf6e---97508345718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d77b23d942f0bd87d83b58a0877f29ab/16714289456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/1533073198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmms-online.com/assets/file/fufasasilefibinabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uleiuri.ro/userfiles/file/rebokagibimebug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reazfarah.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jegunixopigetivij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o20998ohnj9gsirvp0kv1al6l3/45717734560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=the+kite+runner+book+review+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_off0000e700.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE700 18388 bytes
SHA-256: 9f2379cac754eae0a1b30869cd1eab89cbe08cdfa6b48b493c970723a0930048
font_01_sfnt_off000116c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12ED8 10668 bytes
SHA-256: ddde4549903e17ef9e1e90bb5a49bb2ed9305339f316067a535ba68b1180edd7