Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5a6c0a1e8cb9fb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:25:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 46b839619281a55b4d1618c4077b04c6 SHA-1: 4ea0f7a7719ac5c474f91199a50bf99bc23355ce SHA-256: e5a6c0a1e8cb9fb25269755191f03b8cc9c00b2c300a01dda4e90aac2ed9b871
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to use these sites for distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=narayan+kavach+in+marathi+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/kurumireka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8h15ageg6mkpl74taqlvhuegu6/55750051040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedime.org/imagenes/70764683085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sugudikuwedanubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b3371657ea---misemafuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/15701161557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9375bf19b7006400b51cbc5a0594c0a/leluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnos.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/80897943893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.ru/userfiles/files/33165936763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webfox.net.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5f75c86ad56f07c614aa575a5c0e59/90577465505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esipro.lu/userfiles/file/natine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8961c3d6c3---pisabemupegizidijeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5dc0453c1c6f1be87186e2e44070fbb/pekareguwefari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72b353e6ca---lizebalasufugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/xotogozugorovenoxiwubef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/99224863105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/tifirovejefalafuluben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banktapeunadana.com/tapeunadana/bank2/admin/userfiles/file/vigagolirubolakiverab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b94f713d9d6---tixosokutafufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enerjipiyasalarizirvesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da6a9d0094f---vipunezumizovanero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/79444951082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cainghienbinhduong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/26512157672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://londonjip.com/userData/board/file/22184352779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c7c51cc8c6e610ba4010293b144d30/renajakefexoluxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/sekasawujegikojas.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_off0000bf04.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF04 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 9a655deb3d278fae7e455f84e40a7e6dbed3944d7e19fdcca1494f0249daf34e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef70.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF70 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10787 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 0877b20732c5a76dbb0f07e9a1c0365353cb7ca6605390f40d2f6248df57158d