Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5ceed655c7b39d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 09:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 74acf9c363fd51229b49c70c1a550d47 SHA-1: ecaf5fce3623adaafd888e2b9a20793693223a55 SHA-256: e5ceed655c7b39d564fa080ebb4bf8de4d20936c167259989b7c03dc3ab953cc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers, indicating malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on disposable hosting strongly suggests this document is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sermons+on+hope+and+encouragement+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bundoreh.com/fckeditor/files/file/82490629042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/5426942568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepavejebovadepumox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e26402a5236---45936055906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stpatricksreunion.org/clients/84553/File/30183523746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvugiayphep.biz/upload/ck/files/46086599858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9344179d4---54774324616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulanceservice.pl/userfiles/file/negodogudexavesegoparular.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/timuzaporote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bolshunoff.ru/images/wysiwyg/file/3091849587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclambanhang247.com/upload/files/rategikorejatobir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/36836152794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16111691a17de1---jukaxefoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sky1981.com/asset/uploads/files/xuduxeworasixisasinupusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r00e8sl0ptjldp05d19a2c7a76/sedunifixabefaluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongtienlamnghiep.com/upload/file/27076988630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f1b731a4dbd1291e4beb598a67ec185/nexavobevinupojisupeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdhsalumni.com/clients/28864/File/lanoteju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fwullong.com/upfiles/editor/files/kejuzaxixujugorimejone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackivy.pl/userfiles/file/kuwexatesexagikipuxumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeski.hu/freeski/file/72641476126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pewalatebepenike.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/051cba5f5cadf3976ce100ff58b86942/55141103452.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_off0000e8f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F2 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 6c6e2fdff3b04a1713b44eb0cb307ef7386efd69fa9443cb87f1ac7e211bc72a
font_01_sfnt_off000116c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012edc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EDC 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 474780bd3c0f2b57feb1da3c07275b86b715d46a3283ac1d3948009601ec5f91