Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e623016bf84ce0a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-08-03 06:48:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3c0aab32a4e87a10a28395bb9b0c1f51 SHA-1: d439630f246a784c4c78c0b1ac52e81282e1b751 SHA-256: e623016bf84ce0a6acb0f568963cb2fcbd7ad80283e1ada48a30d090558b91a7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress installations or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of an IP address literal in one of the URIs and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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 http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/dapen.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jipscsc72144nl49jafrvqodf5/muzofulisonemudakokun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/jobejitopazidonanidow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ebbfd310c3dcb5d311cde476345a012/47580676458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161060ec4bffe3---zisazewiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/64844632669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidtrading.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gamonowemifusabolax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/36536976709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a366cc3c53a---dikalamavavudekafop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9t2dknro0rsjtedl7gtr1d28qt/43822636979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/31527471827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9da5b2020e---jipupunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-zlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58649453350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.psalighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e74209ead1399fb65291de47d9c75f43/87639544565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/2604948338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vladjurnalist.ru/archive/file/35454998991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/40167470923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazelletr.com/userfiles/files/65558543939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/rewodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f25eda92b395704b33adcefffe0b9242/69298168588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sivam.pl/files/file/15779429416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc7ce73fa0c---12913685889.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+geometr%C3%ADa+primariaPDF 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_off0000e23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE23A 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 9bf27bef0c358d43eb80f45b50f97468ea78b543ef060ca0d7cf24f98cdda4d3
font_01_sfnt_off0001119b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1119B 10880 bytes
SHA-256: 428d387cb6cff5581f78857d2adde91585f4eaccd78ee46bf6cd90651e6f9bbe
font_02_sfnt_off00012a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1