Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5c4d0ff4a264fcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-06-28 07:45:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e394699d723254cd10d8e3e707b6a1de SHA-1: e4e19bc1724630839eb17552ce9a99bd1ad09112 SHA-256: e5c4d0ff4a264fcb0084ae6d75accf19bd5ab404386f90ea6c950a294b57c8e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+moon+full+movie+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://remontnoedelo.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739243e9221---nowotigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20210513/210513131026530541o706jtgpd2x1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnjl.com/userfiles/files/sogexawivaxorapizedadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0fcda108c---xopij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/87051589286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14206892286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160875ef03fd87---musopovolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c378f632a7f---21127721748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bakenisijolekoxelivizufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brighterhealthcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrfd5fn9d3jidfquvslqtbsdqd/newujelakuluxobomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/309eb2a1abed76bce02bb709f15ea5eb/77521613190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/xizewujinexakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shidoremicrosys.com/media/52089943121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7481938b05d2201a6cdf0297a69af473/zefibobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rodnolespropertymanagement.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/fotijovilokipetanosuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db85861e59989f30563533a0a790e749/65116564230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/543caf1a623d9768e809aa2775127c91/bapagadawimaxiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/tuwejovizakifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f09485c8a59c3c436bb2b768408385f/pexilane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ankaratemizlikcim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/pudanotataliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mobytec.com.br/mobytec/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0935eb9cfa---68545165153.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_off0000c40a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC40A 10560 bytes
SHA-256: f006cc1a876982bb52d61a57489a75924bbe61a1b6ed00d51b46c7363a987e2c
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbf8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF8 16620 bytes
SHA-256: a112515b47055529acf8411c90eb9b68ead0c0207acf77377e3e7291ba2d41d5
font_02_sfnt_off00010723.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10723 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1