Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e649eb4fbaa060eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.9 KB Created: 2021-09-15 05:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 86bcda59ebd703ec085e61e31f230bcf SHA-1: 8d3e0239175c589f2cae63bbca1a473104da554a SHA-256: e649eb4fbaa060eb50c5d177a5bc8a0bc6c2da1c1fe45cc9a546bb78fe39a789
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=it+chapter+two+download+filmyzilla PDF link annotation
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bbe7bc5de---68855897523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakaruinzinerija.lt/userfiles/file/jobivuninuzimujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkngsp.ru/upload/files/zujediwaruxiwevisejodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3807b86489434404ef80777516c73b/zabuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldcastlive.com/userfiles/file/bedisojufiziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurosan.pl/user_images/file/81685907003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biholka.cz/uploades/userfiles/file/84099634381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fupobimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hfengly.dk/skoleportalen/userfiles/file/xepezikozogesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/75228537716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alptw.com/images/files/gatolaruzokepuxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foulardfotografando.it/file/zevuxomalegoxidipuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04dff8faa1ad2521d08634674920ecbd/82135582739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panyuchen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/26259734301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairerolo.com/userfiles/file/4187810428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/58182014921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hkha.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firaxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e00917a16---13443591878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22cjbbm2eyae3ehabdb4kqdtae3dxnnc1fhf.com/user_img/files/rarenibitevusuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fertilityupdates.com/userfiles/files/11178873913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/95373235931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartdeal.pl/files/upload/files/mokivalababezenejibev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74665993865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pro-elec.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61244926729.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_off0000ed48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED48 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 676a6f154e9c886ff9da895743cc00440603b970c7534289922ed110afca78b4
font_01_sfnt_off00011c8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C8D 10928 bytes
SHA-256: b133aa94072555807b378637a83415394c4a4b6962a97419a99be768681b2bea
font_02_sfnt_off000135c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1