Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5a777c12587db90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-08-16 14:15:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: beb46482ecd40d92a6cf4ccbe5a6b0d0 SHA-1: f03bcea50800ac9f0d3194aa0ce41810fc99685d SHA-256: e5a777c12587db901931b33db719d0fc17632552cfc93201ddb06e0b74d8d593
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of a link farm and urgency lures points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://adasms.fr/userfiles/file/repuregiwegutuvawizefoze.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/90749795295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b23e2a33313812864ec8d93c7bb1eb97/80282708124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanalprofi.at/UserFiles/file/30683622220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trineckevzdelavani.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soxudozis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/sapenatomuragijuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9k7submgop62paum81t2rivb76/14526074034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nodixebedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spamsmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/82072953931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eo4nhp2qnkptu9l53ulkc53cr3/nirigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweden2020reunion.com/clients/e/e2/e2375cbe45a1e08e95d3a39ca41e84e3/File/votikevexulibaligan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castanienfamily.com/clients/74558/File/75565448065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fd4d170799---1770181167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fbabef18716---zepukudoviwizube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c174c2e0533ad326f3ae325d29ace8fb/35600441734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27e996557c292eb1a58c09adfc1592f5/menedalunobofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsmsaldature.it/userfiles/files/16005513143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventmetal.ru/userfiles/files/pozejedunepekisifuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66709327467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094138d5b89b---nesuzitadiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handbook.hu/upload/page/file/voxawopasabexolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foire-fromages-et-vins.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f15250299f---45116386803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0936e95875---64358373358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/50441610626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+a+samsung+dvd+player+without+remotePDF 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_off0000d984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD984 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 41508e32f2709baadbda66a6958c10a238f8528aac693ae71a2b5bb8211b3fff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f355.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF355 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B67 17448 bytes
SHA-256: f8f3ef2eb5199e95ebed87d240cb6bcfa284bfd7b33df9cc3c065f408abd8b66