Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5e305fdde64de45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 13:08:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 1baec47e01e21c022a27daf4d94224b1 SHA-1: 3137d964adaf5a701cfb972d74c212cf9e837652 SHA-256: e5e305fdde64de4501093e64cdc3b960bb7c3f2cec04f0c5de7bddf37303aef0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm structure is a common tactic for initial access.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rsync+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://7seapharmtech.com/Uploadfiles/files/dakatibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/topeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/11458868325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413e16eba71---jinuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50pcdhtimdqhed6nub1d258fu1/zebip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.esicm-old.org/admin/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66220010301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/kupilisavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bosogiwulefejabuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/32478106451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellarvvv.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17642164149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restravel.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42606843129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94627080656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sendedianqi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904091629463631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/juvodisuvulezoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/fadujaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aasghsflqsae.handylover.com/upload/files/1124458712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6de7938db3a3a7f05200bcfc3e641460/92539522193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/jarajar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baongochoa.com/upload/file/nebavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/71627191033.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_off0000d37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD37F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB91 18696 bytes
SHA-256: 621da7b4a8cc50175b3142f13d050e0f9530e94e5ab553704f25003cd90e6c48
font_02_sfnt_off00011c78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C78 10352 bytes
SHA-256: 9a814f66136618266e76d3c1446344c01ff4076da2ef1d7d719af81cea38d0e1