Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e83cd4e262943d53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:57:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 867d0d75df1104c1309e52167483ec84 SHA-1: fa35e63f72fb156a920633ca717b09b4eabc570d SHA-256: e83cd4e262943d530d751455b5a9ee90860b6a43e0069f89a10a5231a2d33dee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. Heuristics and ClamAV detection confirm this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f79d19b1b4---kerarudebukujejave.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sourceandsecure.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rujiriraloruvelaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160794784c2473---napafunesuzijojuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anticacarsulaeborzoi.eu/userfiles/files/16872938397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfff4c715a---jomepajidelimatowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orosweb.hu/userfiles/file/rozegojojija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/19636504713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/98714436474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsecond.net/UserFiles/File/37630347908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugibezeleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avonsteel.com/UserFiles/file/88823209890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7niiglm37ongcnu71kghpof47/48296423038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161101aa347759---27636014719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/fitelazejumelufowarepezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--clinicaquirogavilario-vbc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u5gag5e1lei8gjm31c98lbdd87/ferofoxuvozulafafejoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/17336127621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/14434939496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b0993336db---jizuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biafrapol.pl/pliki/file/pebimol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/767ed0b642630998de9de02d9e9a40ec/felamabonakilevudolor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0867dfb86a0ef4849c52132c7330dcbe/dupiwogafenosakagubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kadh.kr/bobod/upload/file/xusaxafojibarowigukiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421ea00750545c77c81a2cf7c3dfd543/77629477688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=probability+formulas+for+gre+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DC 11092 bytes
SHA-256: 193c328d47ef6e01dc453f5a5a6fbb5ba6250a39ba4eb56e31c8b5d7e17721c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB59 18048 bytes
SHA-256: 98df8e16354debbb99097bedfdb9de98b6d84ab3df6f06506477496ddbeef07e
font_02_sfnt_off00012a4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1