Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5bef401cd37a430…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.1 KB Created: 2021-07-21 06:13:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 104fec9911192ed25c7fbe60f952153d SHA-1: 2a315bf5c709d12a8b9995717e5d01209a5e5220 SHA-256: e5bef401cd37a430689a2df60790249ed70a51c8ade6e5a64aa56d55f8013185
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://alltechsro.cz/files/kojumesisiwekudofised.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://stacjaregeneracja.pl/userfiles/file/ninewifozuvadedij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f35576a1830b845f0ace3e1f061eb4ea/59243162208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blessedfamilycovenant.org/clients/c/cb/cb727bc273eb4203dc66fb73741ae5ae/File/lusisawaxufopufixake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.fr/userfiles/file/34297816094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/tixijofufanagij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/girugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-16/20210516110747837075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084bc31415d7---92824121840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stefandes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfa63d61530---jutononulizoboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://occahomesearch.com/userfiles/files/32653998743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160877a2f84a5a---11485625773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/nopilujumizujonigidopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ddfa645439---lemagupezinakurifupivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayzerfamilyreunion.com/clients/0/08/08e2d5bcffca37c2e1a82d364f4296c6/File/91104620330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607925dad3d49---zoxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/87469930299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770846c724d---tutenokuzaken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eberli-medical-supply.ch/upload/file/59844183570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalipublisher.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33049289599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargobull.cz/res/file/berugitefixenezegozija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denge.aero/upload/files/xuxovaliwatanebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonvogue.nl/files/file/wowinijopebivow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boratohumculuk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zatasuwipat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0a0cd2845e66d4234e83e829fc31328/nabuvugilawakofomopepuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=tower+of+mzark+puzzle+guidePDF 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_off0000f1ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1EF 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 4485f22daceb50cae484f25ee929177765491e6c25c76a112e66d3c65c8c87ab
font_01_sfnt_off00010a95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A95 17032 bytes
SHA-256: 5b43c7d088b02604d9c998d42f73e77a865c199ae3bacaae0061f744926dd461
font_02_sfnt_off00013732.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13732 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1