Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e790f236178daffe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-08-11 10:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 68647c78266eb9d3b7924ef276cadc44 SHA-1: 2ac04c28092b33ce547d8db4fb58ca1a254abb81 SHA-256: e790f236178daffe0c2b46229139e32e4c930c623fba6e16de71db165712dcf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely for phishing or to download further payloads. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+ce0168+tablet+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xatufazasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5160b8ad3ab01a1d8b8024af9575176d/lapabetufusowilewaxudalor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42a46667aa8e8de680d1819006994b3c/ragelitamenepusakivejowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaodantanthaison.com/Images_upload/files/58040308543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7sb1u1g9rh5judr6ecoruq68ot/61295632909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/53936797876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udmvdpo.ru/images/files/45798631245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/12979863592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shaplaconsulting.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demigusepatapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/154308550d2b0fbf5588341f4c3027d9/kovegego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8pf2a4775sjoatgsmbvokcrho/90657880335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/48239971063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lezeckastenakosice.sk/upload/files/toguvuferepotuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/vilegedumokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/5487972519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashhadgardi724.ir/basefile/mashhadgardi724/files/93751452096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86a4897c2a---rapuzadufon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b22ae7a486---golovirerojazatefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16106436f0f14b---32947114584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/90032056184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etasystem.net/userfiles/files/sunugixubiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cakkue.com/contents//files/13601829270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2290275f50---wekupoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/30511124173.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_off0000f4f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F8 11128 bytes
SHA-256: c78f3a3c06159859f8e6f6c0e72485087ee0e9dfdc62555e53772f77d472fdbf
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF8 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 11a8b4dd3a8f344708e60743e9d7f9fff2712cc22c8fbe4b5d20f87f56de0c46
font_02_sfnt_off00013c8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C8D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1