Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53b071018166c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 00:17:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: 3518979354af86f2edac84f3e9d0a8ba SHA-1: 61c8fcdbb5fe1dd879c2e8fc285c4e89953ecffb SHA-256: e53b071018166c54839d286385be7a7db59293eebaa8c58e3672c7073e658452
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=upper+and+lower+bound+calculator+maths PDF link annotation
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/lefatusowaxisaduzimebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c9u47hhdcogtrk3e33uu66j0l/sisedase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5btas8d9c2pc94cqsu20isukir/bevaxiruvifazadib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sandzak.best/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14c2af8100dc9454764079aff786485e/27791786393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dothi.info/images/files/56466443876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buthah6rgtehmsahhh8bqm91v6/73819984110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droprint.my/home/ququ4923/public_html/userfiles/file/73156463623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/27940181157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://judyzscotties.com/clients/1/1f/1f1ef5c9f72ce0e5bea5babf356718c6/File/saliboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astoriareiki.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/734198f0630acf050c9fc6e249dd7079/64016034019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b41bbb7642c---33864593910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vico-inmobiliaria.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46322767755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/jadobuwakipewexirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humansharehouse.com/userData/board/file/27632343088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiajitutop.com/contents//files/66000503328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708fad538af---vodenafowedemisud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gico.ge/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetejisomogipijinexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907a460ba8d---xuwexare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8faeb4e4f6c91f7bf416abdea937e705/72935603888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gbd65ah8ogdhoq100bjtk0gbh6/jolasiguxusuribipew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/234a3a915497163ead1d201986d96b1d/57849571561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c66996f1dc5---lijodadinidewulelamavuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/64010664152.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_off0000f0d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000108ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108ED 11020 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd29f4ffe58a017a9660e3debd0ea004b0a296334a3f0b6ad8f4fb656b9cbfc
font_02_sfnt_off0001222d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1222D 17800 bytes
SHA-256: b8126697d924ad8b08a6d3951c21ecaf74f74a8b0320d61524598294cfe8ecd5