Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b4eaf47d63f157…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-04 18:24:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 3d2916d986d669dfd14dabe5b9fda7fa SHA-1: b2d584c292d0759636d3de1a43e4fc19f5d5660d SHA-256: e5b4eaf47d63f157110f13c42e0524633b48afda076684b998719f2f52af6b93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/lodezejamovabut.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca003a061b---patufikaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210526062212548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viethanit.vn/hinhanh/file/waxurakoxuxerudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094881097296---nakegisosajanofepuzawolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/sikatuziwinexiniru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b576c62ea---2985441941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c1eafdc328f7cb5dd280f5668fd0aa4/15160487653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erinmillssmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sa4grjio4ae9tc7ssu5d55fm45/71099594755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tuh3eu51tn57ho7se70c2ik9bg/gepurulinuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/simuderoridosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosantese.eu/userfiles/files/mizuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612999dbbc660---xejowekapavipefuredesipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc737001931---liduwilotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2d3a3ju6r8p51ai7db8l4ufoo/50615503773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.movingintofreedom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9d905136ad---lalutiref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77ce0c47113d54963d966c1cbbe80a6b/lewuvovetesasazida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788c3137838---1482862288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eca95a52cd---fukikisati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgc.to/sites/web/upload/files/40373296953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/tiwovofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firmykominkowe.pl/Obrazki/edytor/file/2520535069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=ramamrutham+reinforced+concrete+structures+downloads%2Bpdf+filesPDF 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_off0000d05d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD05D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e86f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE86F 16688 bytes
SHA-256: 06227ae4987a0061d219409457be4a210bb53948d3bf778ee1a1c82b05d18169
font_02_sfnt_off000113b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B5 11116 bytes
SHA-256: 138f89a9a30244bbafb2fae5b14eda9e83cd8e77bc6d4fcab29b722bde360916