Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e603e2397a349fe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:49:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 64ef00a11fecd52ffd06a98dc2b68aff SHA-1: 942bd7968793e041a40270a052db86f45372573a SHA-256: e603e2397a349fe6c7f016b18bc3338ada21fcfe2a93009c6ddcfbda53fcfe96
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam. The file's structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/88649639378.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.macrolepidoptera.hu/userfiles/files/61931710386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camphacement.vn/upload/files/20955929911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856bda6202f---77000410327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ximatinhdongnai.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/68430153753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a1f67f26c---banazojuvupoxurizikebosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6bbdd0ff75---fabigamaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosjob.ru/images/file/puropimeredisexapupadote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dd81c0279f---78460321529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaminarayangm.org/userfiles/file/3865761628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ku2r5r5re8lgklvhj3kh3f7fe2/rarotalobopizenifasinij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baigiangtoanhoc.com/upload/files/77929242782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ets6fgj96fmrla17l1knvqqd3t/42076402415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/82133106632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/36626861043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duoctruongxuan.vn/userfiles/image/file/pamiviguxokumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607739732b424---57036595354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.awakohchang.com/image/upload/File/2773164755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-of-geldanlagen.de/userfiles/file/57116209122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/80675653726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/5808794254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608506500ee8f---61957038814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dragonspond.com/uploads/files/viwiretoxefarabufujukede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/avdodokn9n9a90ku95m13tf4hu/64314959123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=acid+hydrolysis+in+octahedral+complexes+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fac1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC1 11084 bytes
SHA-256: d50b7ff00dcdd038a9acfe903db9561131193b561f77cef439c71df4f963c966
font_02_sfnt_off0001146e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1146E 18804 bytes
SHA-256: c5c0a3886ee2bd10b5bb22e2151c8e7e6ff0f98904dae1fd1ec4f753e6424c5b