Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5f1175be6307b37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e04ef8dc9855756b742c2ebe1e288e86 SHA-1: 6fe6b622205ddc3cd5d70f23b975b96aef559734 SHA-256: e5f1175be6307b37c8dbe6cc5ea27adeb90a32695c0994fb9df0eeffa193da48
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites used for hosting PDF files. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or direct traffic, characteristic of link farms or SEO spam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=genetics+from+genes+to+genomes+pdf+6th+edition PDF link annotation
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff98a9af715dcfe9f96b701c23d9a325/dujepefigesasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93fbe8dbbc4ae7ab7e8ad0265287af7/39291620841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k-yoga.org/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210511153841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v592f709l0tn2eeut3ubvgmck1/gejuragowixagaxubetebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8b896ec99---xenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogelaipigeon.com/upload/file/34374329998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shbnmod5cps3jfc8d8efgvl1b7/nowupupotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0487665163---nulibaguwula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cymagun.com/userfiles/lubija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2c289614573a47cb4490fd722976bd9/digofoxoxavekabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93191978336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://candybeauty.vn/upload/files/torikaworesesasaguvemobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-versute.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumagasatebazosubilitora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd2348d0ba---sitepivudewozakopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenagegroup.vip/userfiles/file/wezejagevobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/difebufifuguwadokufule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayer.cn/d/files/xolirugepirilew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///tovetelova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bostaninsaat.com/image/files/bobefak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/363039588417c4b431aa43b677b13a07/66015315019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/61481492310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9bb4bf1fb---natobozusidetani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611eaa2f1b918---1293608957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2b9a983d96---70428080756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulsquare.com/userfiles/file/51695891265.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_off0000c984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC984 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 31c52bc7cf0103349401c2086ef66d6eab4cacbeb9ca0505810c28cff75cbd0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB02 17364 bytes
SHA-256: 6c26a1539783952f72a0c2cb54ac30944e2bd9ee438eecde1dd4d6b8252e9341