Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e806f508e08bce5c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:05:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 48b786818b449f7f95f00259c4fc6483 SHA-1: da4f811844a7b04407a52f5a86f948da999daa5c SHA-256: e806f508e08bce5ce18b0d9810b8b44927b6ea95332311c7c2efa2333dacbad6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kinematics+questions+and+answers+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/80376831151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/55193632212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085b1c0315e0---kosevuxebigerofemobofipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/58519296178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizuloviguborebitusupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c158b308f4c---dujujumurefozogilox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43926721489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tweedehandswikkelaar.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wibifibuwekefaliwipenaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mkmesoq328v84fgu383hi45v1/77502278568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fd31d9279b65b6d611801e64f2b380d/12875997721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iof9vgdttfo655k54raha20if5/xuvadadewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/mapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/sopipawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vzglavniki.net/data/file/29597799650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viceda.com/userfiles/file/63912599497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teranor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sexaxejonuveba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/wizenasozonivebuxirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocoachfox.com/userfiles/file/puwewedavipexevemapavuben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assignmentmart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64675732976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072d5c506bac---mokokolikilupenarinupujix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://df-2.de/images/daten/file/ganibirawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079cd769f7ea---42460548953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc7aa9b64b---taluda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozsersogutma.com/upload/files/4387620300.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_off0000d3f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F2 17484 bytes
SHA-256: b386f42f9f9bea777db96daad49fd09f838c184328adeecdb6b6d397cad3d51b
font_01_sfnt_off0001015a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015A 11056 bytes
SHA-256: 142b8830de2298e4fd2b5ebfdb0d2a9964972ee3c36b20ec2f429eb8ce2ffde2
font_02_sfnt_off00011af1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1