Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e615f737aa23966c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:45:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 5e026d9386064b297f79670e7bf953a5 SHA-1: 53d2b2e2629b88fe60c12134edc7b659c89808b0 SHA-256: e615f737aa23966c36d2b5cb46e79195f939f68b5a5d304f860a65b215a7febb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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=the+meaning+of+cuckold PDF link annotation
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/fovisirefujewozupebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/93737263517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artecgroupservices.com/imagenes/file/56080164667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d73e22cfe3b02396cfc726a00459fb/15493802590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/rovotexutegivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sameiroeventos.pt/ficheiros/10601393131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aanugxqi.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46934816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://50wj66.com/clients/a/af/af9d65f11c1965a5434adcd4cd578f00/File/dalevelavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c958657c86f---petopemonidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capitolmetrophysicaltherapy.com/files/files/91920866212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160742fe6356e6---99577003584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add71c0bb59---rarimiguleganesiget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9524a9d844---51830363109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074527517621---gobotixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zavalinka.by/var/upload/file/fumusimukojux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afghansolar.com/userfiles/file/63227360860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moniimpex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b61687fdeb---38272952204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e29e7c2dbf---xuwisoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/24646590124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e4598f3a6c---duwijokaxudogesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077427d6add6---14729022406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/wobakirepoketunoratonebed.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_off0000b8f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8F0 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 6b50cf7f1f6c99fb0ad1e75dd60dc93fddbac1fe18672c772b09859e7c239d67
font_01_sfnt_off0000d10c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD10C 17068 bytes
SHA-256: f87c53613e599c543363769180c17a9a25fc404b8806f1c07270dc69e0280c5c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd47.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD47 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1