Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e693f83bc5c0b63e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-06 03:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e88b9a857479bba347ac9046b82a0b92 SHA-1: 5ee18f77593d439b83e47389a7102d4a74b61320 SHA-256: e693f83bc5c0b63eee837eff195072753e8159172ce4a94a2111de1759663e1c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicate a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and IP addresses, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The malformed stream length heuristic also indicates potential exploit activity within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 https://gelblighting.com/userfiles/files/71843306279.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artechq8.com/beta/uploads/files/78844499414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727b72bcac4---defale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhli-janmaria.cz/userfiles/file/23133578982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelclinton.it/userfiles/files/jomasoxituw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bancodevida.com/bancodevida/admin/images/image/file/vowixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser-arena.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b736ed726---jurixuliturisuxebef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://umhouses.com/uploads/files/vodoresa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaintik.org/files/galeria/files/76440216442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burgas-remonti.com/userfiles/file/93065539209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9010101cc7---81864152306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32545516043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myjobcareer.net/userfiles/file/2021070709540173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/999542b2095c56dab2860c4bc643d959/19577804110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160987e25200c9---20756477662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/liralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2f6302qkj0ek1a83946tgr6up/16902513191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff3d06eebb5---89555906658.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/vifupavuseli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/47315523664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/37519457078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://associazionedynamica.it/uploads/file/vofivedutadifumatatosol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607671d00aa36---pifufaduwixokek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rosesrealtyhomes.com/userfiles/files/77489764130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=carrier+cassette+ac+catalogue+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_off0000b6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6A0 10820 bytes
SHA-256: d18345ce14fb94b5a39c47afb557591cd91beed5d9423bc951d1e387e06af4ee
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF83 16216 bytes
SHA-256: d2c3b7f82cef30c7da8f7240b8b7872495fa45bcd88420c3cd7159c2436f173a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8FB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1