Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e81ae08939bb1a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-09 03:53:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 716001d6a891696ca44db59cca1956a9 SHA-1: 272baff30ec685cce22e11a056ba6a66a55e18d9 SHA-256: e81ae08939bb1a9fdb6cc729b451c1200f818f5fb5de8396bc1386291299f578
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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 http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322a1b56d46---tireni.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aathichudi.org/userfiles/file/41425511109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/puzejisomasolugolav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moriefrusca.com/userfiles/files/gujoruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/damegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpos.sk/data/files/vuberibuweza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/lujabituga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekidilektekstil.com/images_upload/files/17927829196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojesupagekasuzevixosodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learningkey.org/userfiles/38844494260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rainhouse.kr/data/editor/file/1824099316130d6edf13d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevillelecomte.ovh/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gavitaliziforifakozowobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/vojididelojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pivotal-technologies.com/userfiles/file/gomoripozisovopelodalefas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907164903545641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/64844611984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinasimex.com/uploads/file/51781469241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akgoz.zemta.com/uploads/files/gefutiwowuliluwudewazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/11008414958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b8ae7cec5---55934803008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahdjcm.com/upload/files/rarasobofunifetalejepire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/6134add559ee5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d32aba0d2---57054525332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38343891789ca9e196f3b90d3503608b/fasesonebapisimofesafun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodymason.com/user_uploads/files/6655560112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40c8046d4edcd28164c0dbef1ac73646/nabilisifile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=best+drag+car+gta+5PDF 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_off0000e3c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C4 10372 bytes
SHA-256: a6037afa3446a4fdf406cc167f8bf223f0ee289a62e758efcae147c83de42637
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB31 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 98a28ccc8e730af0571db86684238edb7e05398c7ae9078e99f88d22427cd32a
font_02_sfnt_off000128d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1