Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e805e47af94a7381…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:20:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3cad7dbf25551f3676fb19801cab5a29 SHA-1: 167d54df500b2b9fe9a52dc19d98c9c4e8647983 SHA-256: e805e47af94a7381f625b9a150f119c0d34cd313bfe1d8d993367e8d5787b6b2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and are structured as a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpqkcm04ogoi1isi04uhf3r56r/nofizesisimufurusutebov.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adb036a3f41---53764451796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/44287079923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vibrationmonitoring.asia/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161046e7119c41---23880585365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc38fa17ac8---fikuzexekotakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.idromeccanicasrl.com/idromeccanicasrl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddf2b3ad1240424f0823086388942b49/4529638249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9sb7u9gmsmgg944nt1nuf216bf/38016110308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cf96725571---kivalukibololawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/xoratu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3e1a6c58aa---92457119232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfaaa.com/UploadFile/file/20210828093539241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marinapogon.pl/upload/file/38317968484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/sagumupanixefakutal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082130875183---gagawowawavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/13243222645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/linovuxivujan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4fd7a48118---jakamotugatulupipadediwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e2ece0e1c---temoworixovexuroneduza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35bf31c761895b2e926875bd435c928d/25906591049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zojuziburiwajef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logomarcanet.com/userfiles/file/75720057082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e668d6f5ff159ed227694fb2bc70603/firaluweneveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/88039747603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinproval.it/userfiles/files/94909057667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=crossword+polynomial+by+finding+the+indicated+productsPDF 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_off0000cad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAD2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2E4 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 36e2fa93a546279527bab2d06f53dd60232e0bc0bebb10cb9632acc1d4c2215a
font_02_sfnt_off00010c39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C39 11536 bytes
SHA-256: 029ee6c2b15a2e806c2b7ce32f8f3ec9774b2a7e3530fb376aa667b6e65997d6