Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5e86665486c18cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-07-30 06:15:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1187b3656b764356a4aa1fa3111067b9 SHA-1: 03eed2c71910135d4fba6c75b5b4334e6ffa9261 SHA-256: e5e86665486c18cd9a5842ee159593ed5d7dbf5703ad5f79f312b1bda9c6b445
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this phishing or malware distribution intent. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+rc+integrator+circuit PDF link annotation
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a227d436902---24230385826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oncetrabzon.com/resimler/files/50351934987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846c0943d9c---rolenafibenasuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irmascaritasdejesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f655654424---lopipomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/nujifufuxiwawumesar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travels-ukraine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db4310899c9---66553443134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/xadeboxejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/jaxese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inventory-acepipe.com/images/uploads/files/72814003239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ue9oaosl7slp4hh5cbg11vvq76/89948631375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bdf539de5---75784941787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thienlongadv.com/upload/files/93716130589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/3598562279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffcef4ba8ca4bf14e9c1bac6637e116b/24513703969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-stv.ru/userfiles/files/37629740934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ba74b0609ffac2dfacf787dbdd4200d/nemurekoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086129f6ef4e---32553973009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diakmelo.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duderutopiwopoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca06bd494d---jeravotudixilatadafozov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/jemekezawofefulakete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/154df1611460dcaa1f06ab2cd474611e/rurutuxotokalegurigisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/98504022753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aadhar-interior.com/userfiles/file/78048803024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dc9b3696633d563502be3486d6eab79/gezeparixolatofusuvasufub.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_off0000e306.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE306 16712 bytes
SHA-256: b3be938a3765f756134338c5acabdbec3161fb3a1dd05c0e27347aa6f465d6c3
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9A 10556 bytes
SHA-256: a81df04114e4c5a58d9369b09b99d46b4150bef46f36cf36221167fb9ab565ac
font_02_sfnt_off000126b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1