Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e73af2182a32c5a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 20:06:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: d4bfe79b464e0bc60d4dabbf3e4a60fc SHA-1: 57929c723c21ae6ea8abdc9a991347a004b5438f SHA-256: e73af2182a32c5a432939dfba7052347c682bf8b2f236ba6bf0cc1e3b7296750
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that contains numerous links to compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to host malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to trick users into downloading a payload. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=can+could+exercises+pdf+2+eso PDF link annotation
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eef20fcd3c5e99d0628c58d63943204c/72098117482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/58961537197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gabrielamaciel.net/images/content/file/dumekizikitenogugukis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytbozhuo.com/upload/file/081442127985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abcc1b578e3---saluxexubeligosutajatiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/kadazuposedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qpd8ldsgdjlvoqsb2pkkl9s6ls/10633115303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/21591929818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070bc8615030---sazunasibunejukovoderetix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256c008cb083276ae6c45677daf3b719/xivuwuxivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04575d193f53197077988419a0246aa8/nugefujutojanopez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/706f1fa6318699180e4bf5c3ff46077a/zopirenapajenij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834da1c37c9---64199055657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bcb0ae08e---koxodukemawozes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a04149592f0---famonim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7a015d1596---80575765105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/93795777260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83862404054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vintageguitar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakexasesadijepaporo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/43961556245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/67389268831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestizhstroycompany.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/nevigogotejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kis-u.com/page_data/file/20210628002016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/wusizuxaxadesu.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_off00011775.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11775 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 9737562e4ebd6b7a02e65e2bf89f6479a65461ea23a70a5ad51a7a78844ce714
font_01_sfnt_off000130be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130BE 20400 bytes
SHA-256: 9ceea69f4347b1f044785dbffa1606d24acaa045afd96c40b5138c3df25e3aac
font_02_sfnt_off000165f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165F4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1