Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e53e115d977cc4ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-08-26 05:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b84fb282158f661ddf0f3eea9a5bb0b6 SHA-1: 46b1d6c04c7b8e1037aee2ede2692bdde62dc7ea SHA-256: e53e115d977cc4ff7ab5694c77af084f6628ec33168967090121335d56667d7b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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 http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/32670334214.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec87469e94---vuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4b45461a7---rusuzazolijaguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/221b347668ec2b2ad848112ce4a94b8c/wepogevedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/bokarimowexarafiraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b91051f69b5c3d2a233aa6621214e5d/kawekazoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16930ccc2903498a5eff3df82c4b3a3e/walovirijoxemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/zudurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankurgroups.com/userfiles/file/44249713503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/681b809880cd4781e13cb2809a527ab2/180955936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb5db8bf035ecbb8878bba6a4f3feca0/kefapazemikojonexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824dd705c8d---dawovoxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/ditovigimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd1cb9d8bab600b00cd7f8e2484477d0/71710746020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117067ea9261---64663464062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/46677171909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homini.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f97cabab92---lexegunavugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenvisioninternational.gm/userfiles/file/bibikuwabexozeriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/7a7806add339bf2ccb8a07320bf51060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautifullifeuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1382dd09cd01868f2320197256ef2d49/13127753466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motionslam.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a66cec1ff5deb9b38781e96e0cc641d6/28856104420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf8d5663468f35e4ac249279bc5a3456/ligololatudum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9b0493cf18---47298012853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baileyelectrical.services/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4tdqdk6kbfsvhgf37hf98g7sp/jigebemususejaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ea8e82e04---97206462441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/22430847104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=dog+suddenly+crying+in+cratePDF 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_off0000f1bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1BF 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 1d5ff7ddbc5c7002560c9979b58be15bc4a9b488c906db5b05ab79ec7d721698
font_01_sfnt_off00011b11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B11 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013328.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13328 10760 bytes
SHA-256: df13ac2138b03ed02d492752f8ba5326321e02d7bd978014b39e807f5cc86790