Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e67e5914a0ca661c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-30 18:47:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: de4eca5f312a53937c10da8642fc7c60 SHA-1: cbaccca92a0835aada2e399f4d22e67c0e4f943a SHA-256: e67e5914a0ca661c2a51a168c968afcac3b8c53f22a6286b5e7fa4f25128c312
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests the document's primary purpose is to host a collection of links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://funkyspa.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84450492867.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13852981880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipforiraq.com/userfiles/files/vebefixumeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungvassar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a317c0d81be---zavemuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c16501474394d7583ef31c3ceb50b64/guxetifijisiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e770d751a8b02dbdd48cd8126ec51c1c/tulagipofipesepewuriputiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094642007657---63192398542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childconnect.com/swi/fckfiles//file/10538114083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4703b486f5---90305973939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.m2asolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e66432e3166ec4287e38ee1d94834f70/seleneji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahlhy.com/uploads/file/280211523901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nicolalazzarotto.com/userfiles/files/xalifabetegetovotunavebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/12475556129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875be15c96de4e22fda2e8f1beebe82d/toregemez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alphaveneers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af46828328c5f0c8d8180317d28819e7/23593873260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senesi-sklad.cz/userfiles/file/25992527881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/15672386917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/nokasetenutodepot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/531da1c70e5fbdd5bc2338883b35e478/60499723665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=anything+u+can+do+i+can+do+better+lyricsPDF 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_off0000e0cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0CD 19360 bytes
SHA-256: e860300d0ab9a6c75966158b5f8dc52e9de70b854cb0f4c2550ad8bf12d2615d
font_01_sfnt_off00011322.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11322 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B39 10984 bytes
SHA-256: 2c41e7b5dab43389a65084bec74d518eb59b8755f67badc635166366ed5f096d