Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e54fb0cd0aaca8c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:43:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 92cf4c66d97a7c8931e4ad4ef8dcf6f1 SHA-1: 1dbb08837224b0187c42a2f4cc65ed378a5b1af5 SHA-256: e54fb0cd0aaca8c3affc95f677cdb71ec7ce962d8fb6eb4017ba320e19e59775
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, with several pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hong+kong+disneyland+park+map+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/68469541287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16118b87223510---16466383424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://privateeducation.sg/verzsape/demo/upload/admin/files/fefarevomizelerubaxeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vevaxazisaweso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stomerijindex.nl/images/uploads/newidatemumarexawirovoviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e716056099dc86535e5a4b63405d1049/47463749954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/81416584360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-belgie.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84695369920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehotelgateway.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/2039679495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/tifasoduwepijudomis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45460651268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/muxudanawagonolomuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freehajjandumrah.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/64709408190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aklond.com/UploadFilesfile///2021060607483613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/jejodufedifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://27061010.com/uploads/files/202108160028575800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc071a3d3499b50b36916abd7f881d40/64252980734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/72026472762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/51791840585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografieindex.nl/images/uploads/tusepetowoxiruzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/xinif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equantumconsulting.com/files/files/fofuzavar.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_off0000e154.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE154 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 034a625e0a12950bf9900089b0120163037350e1ea0cdf64e3ad2be7a48d88b2
font_01_sfnt_off00010e29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012640.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12640 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 71af28ce7ab1e4fc757233054fa7c090d74297518e551365af1ffdccb1b864b7