Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e813ed49774b7fb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 10:28:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0abc38158c145220d3390dbd860c0156 SHA-1: 0e6a699268a4f96b3e06827b1b629f25ff105ed7 SHA-256: e813ed49774b7fb7bb43ca0f1258dd8f26329081b8d4f1ce360373803ff15511
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=improving+k+means+clustering PDF link annotation
    • http://adasbruiloften.nl/userfiles/file/13594614609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avalon-essenzen.at/userfiles/file/41548839779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinyuemu.net/assets/202109/files/20210907113045637873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecksco.com/upload/files/jevubibutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paroles-vives.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vodunera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f21f790f9d2c266baf9fac662c2377/22856073454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yournamebadges.com/withyourdog/cms_uploads/file/65138749466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mictrogiang.com/userfiles/files/jivosipujowuruzasomidoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ateliergermain.net/sites/default/files/file/lizukazal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslimitada.com/userfiles/file/supix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alate.org/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/38665474492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbladvtgxneccoge3bt.xn--p1ai/pict/file/62822317974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/43942355376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugitaxorakudekabosedipav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.greenlakecruises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5763240663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/65f0527a5461a977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613060be8c883---70560247548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radiosmile.hu/upload/file/bawovakuvuvavesaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a27d4d058---vapepe.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_off0000c63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC63C 18236 bytes
SHA-256: 0d29459d8196abb3efeb5dee146ea6cc30017fa2bd3ddeb3c1cefd4801cc8855
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010dc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DC1 10924 bytes
SHA-256: f723ec2f952ef961640cdd1af1c13a36eb4e48dab05485eb8014c61594838460