Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5e90f90616ce518…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 10:00:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8ffe0960ecf8e49d9c3e924f87f73de8 SHA-1: f043d80069a0ee5ea4feabb014362d018f605b1e SHA-256: e5e90f90616ce518ad475ab4f1f9b55fb4887fcfcd4fd9b674027c023d48a3c2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter in one URL indicates a potential attempt to track user engagement with lures like '8 ball pool mod apk android'. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL distribution strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=8+ball+pool+mod+apk+android PDF link annotation
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goxagisanugutapoxipemaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/67318296437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67430997971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://producto.works/userfiles/file/worafixowunozikurufatinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavera.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310387bf96b---denagunivuvolofakunazum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parlagame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/41569945957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/93349042876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sahyadrisevasanstha.in/userfiles/file/wuduguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baigeleather.com/userfiles/file/36356147989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/fepifofuvobenefodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdes.in/uploads/30085155100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egymast-segito.hu/uploaded/fck/file/mobagipelokotisunugeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamax-moto.cz/data/dokumenty/duziwegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nazycakes.com/userfiles/file/66363648614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ac6ed48826e43c76db4b04fc05acd7b/36028575993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-catamarans.de/res/wysiwyg/file/68706396514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etkenkalip.com/files/mijeton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/nikewirider.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termokingbt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noluxobudimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133bb4a93eea---94047505105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stop-remont.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pusigibeguwufakexofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisiana-arts.org.s150269.gridserver.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/lipamipimisolizovez.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_off0000d48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD48C 10500 bytes
SHA-256: e5f345eaf82c16845efc1a98e6c808fcf4e84bea87c6ad589e8fe44a5ffdce30
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC05 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010417.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10417 17352 bytes
SHA-256: 2b561e1f7c31b5465eaa4abeefeb488542f1f99f2d7dc8218fbab7adc3b1507c