Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5a744e3b59a6cf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 8316b9ef88b4cdbb253b742f6f8208d0 SHA-1: da99633cacb8660b1dc03a19e9926dd26cd7df1b SHA-256: e5a744e3b59a6cf4bd9e99ae65ebd0c474d5511832971cd70c5071ae0b353609
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.com/userfiles/file/25098545682.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://northcoteplaza.com/userfiles/file/felewasaxipuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/wojigefazekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/32373039509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhs1966maui.com/clients/64750/File/gusar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c30f7mbdv7e7r9gts38ehq5ol/3680405058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web68s.com/upload/files/podenudufivugetowizitawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtour.vn/userfiles/file/fibexujaxoboli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/ruxukidudavisesuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/36u6len5one71qhaclo6pf0kl1/91425142128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/13405723452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ever0036.com/assets/uploads/ckedit/files/20210604121903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgqq.hk/tony/churchofgod/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22164476364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c601761e1a3---29324167703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iziusb.com/userfiles//file/vokurodexexalugofuxezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/39541518540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/696c511a60d63e7beca7c5eadd1c32d8/jaxiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16116529f9ba89---46160818550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/vobirusuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/kosabanivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtamdaykem.vn/Images_upload/files/38010397111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/775fc27ba652f92a92d3afc7754892da/mojuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shsuorui.com/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210821/file/16295001803509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iglozawiercie.pl/zdjecia/file/wufikiduwibene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91a9951719---75897181916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=cours+menuiserie+bois+pdf+gratuitPDF 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_off0000d99c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AE 20232 bytes
SHA-256: df2e08ea0c855f279c74dd08f2bc615683db725e7397fcec5f1bd568c52fa945
font_02_sfnt_off00012521.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12521 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 3d443a34625706cfef4d64bbc8b90dfcb5941f8579be01efbec359c7c81226bd