Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e81e1de7d76445b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-09-03 08:09:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b56e7cc72634b6620f775ccd74dc6ccf SHA-1: 376d8d929c3894087648ec2516ed7cdf481a1ee8 SHA-256: e81e1de7d76445b7ffc73c874c0a27c607f79ef57025ae8e1a625e1a26bedf11
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+pets+worksheet PDF link annotation
    • http://presssimayeshahr.ir/pic/file/wulolanulifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1d6826b7df---ritolorozesagewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/69573434168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vknipbcoutqcgoa1udib9n5cum/81244197753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c39c2664e87654803892f7cff1b27ea/54230290063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/41383359588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ck-tct.ru/userfiles/file/81718742589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5999d799d8ee975a246446278d4a09bc/24873511737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rsun.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bimagolozazefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608236941806c---siguroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/14768110066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/tojotupupiludezit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d69aba5650f---vuxaxedoxalakoxilima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608937a8ce168---wogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lekovigomupizigopowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/bilaxetukefezilufezemulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rialta.ie/userfiles/files/99476536511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotwaterfactory.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ecd72a53d2841f1d0fe9b61f0b8c62c/16989291091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santabruna.cl/upload/file/linebumofado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.skyline-recruiting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6773f1f1d0ac4a0ca2ada70b9cb2b81/nomapavopizikelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/sobulajolitufofigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongros.com/userData/board/file/rupelenajiriporigukati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b41ab5cfc---49068149862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbnjl.com/userfiles/files/66447133562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wholisticvibrations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29d735c6b3fb84643299b217c68aa80e/wakivufukuwul.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_off0000ed35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED35 18860 bytes
SHA-256: 7370432aed25518fe31bc5fd69342d48c5007dda98cb6ae3328754934be20b2d
font_01_sfnt_off00011e2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E2D 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 77b754d584d194c2010af8d463e5ee751c7cbc0747d63c6ee8c337632453b964
font_02_sfnt_off00013648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13648 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1