Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b097946ad2ebec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-08-08 17:24:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: 34587f985cc4fbc1263107ded9003848 SHA-1: 0e702c938fdabb208c3b3e433ffbdfb748f184bc SHA-256: e5b097946ad2ebeca04dd68d5f07437f8caf272739622efbd01c42eb75637fdb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the malicious destinations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ulead+video+studio+8+free+download+full+version+with+crack PDF link annotation
    • http://www.majbrno.cz/uploads/files/82258556038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/wowitepukaviguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vcvscr.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/64729136724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitakhealing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43269981834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://investin-khj.ir/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel.com/contents//files/75012010665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/450d10d7e466f0ef00373977c8e9e8cb/tukegokovibowatesawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/pekigedododop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelborgodeipoeti.com/userfiles/files/27681394583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridendo.cz/files/file/20572355208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbk-ingatlan.hu/uploads/file/kepapalowafibuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadmoor77.com/clients/39738/File/68690982363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d4fedc17c---pivuneviwukosanarujibiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanillasky-ch.com/images/files/28249100415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076de7231de0---nubemukunipulabit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giasuthienphuc.com/Images_upload/files/nutugegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608214572a13d---pumososema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1bcce91410b0bcb42aa4cc82b4336da/51584969429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d00e24eaf11---xurojaleputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samafb.org/uploadfilefiles/furiwaligodewavamatabuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qataminational.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/98498785976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heykidsletscook.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed4580a34f2ee8f2ea65b09c4483518e/dolovezuxoxolodegud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/kebatawaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e8a4142ae9---wigijixuxidifatunipojumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ced52eb259---98364248220.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_off0000f50f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50F 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 989b5219036123cd5396217235f5060ad761ae22eeaf29db4e27c92c2eb8c628
font_01_sfnt_off00012165.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12165 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001397c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1397C 11132 bytes
SHA-256: 88aa8d948497fcc628b2ee3983b92dfc111f9a9d0a73f5879bc94154bb8857e9