Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e810abdb41aa88d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.8 KB Created: 2021-08-09 13:31:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 56666ee12e947919fe66a603f1f9cb41 SHA-1: dcca6b6913a1bca67a5e4f378e0f3206eeb03c36 SHA-256: e810abdb41aa88d3336e4d2c85b55f74f8fef632758bfb90bcdb7b6909d0f631
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings are sufficient to infer a malicious attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hermann+hesse+journey+to+the+east+pdf
    • https://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/ludufamabofu.pdf
    • https://kajariaadsevents.com/admin/uploads/file/seninutifazedaw.pdf
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6b542106923df6cf02bbf0540392650/97293833972.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d0fa129db0---46763609467.pdf
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/dutadarase.pdf
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/71696403279.pdf
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160edf5da17072---gulofu.pdf
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d05f3d9e3b8---jogumu.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5gvhhqi4lanj6p3a2ovvb75h5/tikexobidorujezidadumabe.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c70666bd1bd---42220101479.pdf
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/75500861200.pdf
    • http://kirakuramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/tugisufokifelugurepu.pdf
    • https://bienenaktuell.com/sites/bienenaktuell.com/files/file/xejofa.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p2p8gi439qd7vpdg567negnv5u/lusasedawev.pdf
    • http://sakem.org/userfiles/files/7545661846.pdf
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077adb3ec07f---56959589418.pdf
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2d31be1070---robujilejusotilamesak.pdf
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f265bc0d73---mivivosu.pdf
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3crq2p2jsku1hgqdph6k9vaped/kidisiradu.pdf
    • https://www.aironface.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bf6cb586dbbcf8b07345509806bcd77/vujolulobejejiji.pdf
    • https://afanasyev-design.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb567a88eeb72aedd86435a9e527fd39/40388652200.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ab747f486---varivozuwugufugugu.pdf
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a88d76b060b---47746526177.pdf
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/75098744339.pdf
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/nawifarurusunezadubif.pdf
    • http://xn--b1adcbbai1bezln.xn--p1ai/content/File/72377596932.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000edc0.bin
26e3deeec034f20ce2b14a561d97588c5126ac98d0b183dd12a8df1b6f58789b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDC0 16472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011813.bin
b2c26c99d0b1a87bc820c5007658e5436dd0338c6cfc3d1b4cae6b8beab02776
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11813 10960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013150.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13150 16792 bytes