Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b40566115e7df7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f61345c6742fdbdd53b91f00fcf7487a SHA-1: bdb6ebb64aff8a449efc41598bf8add7a03d3cb3 SHA-256: e5b40566115e7df78a954e7a9504aac45a0f69196334938badac7d882daa3091
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF structure strongly suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further payload delivery or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://buka.ru/sadm_files/89858513560.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a610b6990d7---kutekidupojutetologu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigipumefimefej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1507953b5ce42bbf70b5e550e0cd545f/71168869578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdjrh98n5ouf8r0h33debal301/josavomagive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharidendesignasphalt.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f47ac1c78b766ac38fb391fa12f4d993/pomolof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/31823233819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/srgge2ls0hj995kf90i7utpomt/tekotajosuzidodipagatab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raiporjai.com/piceditor/file/85067646335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f246d78df2---vixiropoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/34284261196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/vuzine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b339d5125---digivuwirojodimugulobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98sjelh4t5e442vve25vo3s9f0/jolixamegerux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60CC86F6AA26F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caythuocdangian.net/images/files/16390125789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zdrowejaja.com/Upload/file/95274768886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/21731127230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62b49c4b76---33897479338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/828037419dee8bcb03f3c86edfb0f2ca/57360133759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asianmosaicnyc.com/userfiles/file/14163282452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/xematiguzorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d60a45ea579f80ae317516b27c515c1c/39860518909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=converter+doc+to+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000b66b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB66B 10536 bytes
SHA-256: cc213461efb2c6fc078752b4e5827a17a4a5dcce4806703f86ba8c00b5cb7ddb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ceaa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEAA 15108 bytes
SHA-256: 81b3212efdac0bc1a0cc8a72cf09622f69278ed83c5abc8b6c407dbb98af6742
font_02_sfnt_off0000f48f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1