Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e81dbb2ec5794969…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-08-09 08:42:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: aa5907482071b1eaa99dbce2bc27ca49 SHA-1: 03d6e763e11b3f443b78256007680740ff5c1115 SHA-256: e81dbb2ec5794969ab2d71e2f0e4aaa41681bbe036b9b30b921778258e764f2e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous compromised websites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics indicates a deliberate effort to obscure the final malicious destination through a network of disposable and compromised hosting sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/xisepogixa.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15f2cacf9b5c9c414adf56738c1cc459/luwogusavimefubix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7139ff6ec5cc661816711b27170a33f/wusesuligavileze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceral.pl/ceral/pliki/file/83994227565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cda0a98962---20543221265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sudburyhighspeedinternet.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eee4ad51eee854c29c6ab60d1cb88b1b/16877198060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmrsjiek8i5fnb6fmfkh5pke94/lamofojawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarant0g3l-turbo-h1t.com/contents//files/65594044354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/960889599610f1b299169d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7c3a69066e---11681368223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5th2lv1cbrhs5ujm0kroag0290/nigisifapokoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/pojorususofixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2589eb1665---61340948190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b49ad3a486---95485552388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2d6fa480d70ecf1ae05ae89a6c6c6f6/5777413596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec2d745097fb0a322411502855eb114c/migezojabivesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j2r0gbiqm9f93hueont6lvt5g6/xixivubirutomidir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f262bf2848d4ed1a4b6847ae4ccc3b5/25841190992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peak-experience-japan.com/images/blog//file/17899544793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de9af55a24e---tonudujamiben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ganqog73p8ba1ts8ho48ph5b/65056772182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/bidijatogiwome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floorco.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1428717e7fa4b7dfa0a8d1a9b379810/tegipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70860053007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seeandhearbetter.ie/img/shop//contents/mamolizamawogeleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=starmusiq+collection+tamil+songs+downloadPDF 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_off0000f326.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF326 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B38 16960 bytes
SHA-256: 91ec4d35afa77e537f042104f439ea410256bd3dc11a798b8a9260777e46da25
font_02_sfnt_off000137a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137A7 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 1108ed2250818c69561d192f30b498cbd1a4cc0cda656b1c91b2b0fc1121e24d