Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e888c75fd2819b0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7354c078587c41bb1899a54bdfc43b55 SHA-1: 4b943597adc29b1889da1d8932b1fcddbadbbfff SHA-256: e888c75fd2819b0a0d9b24ec90c9b2b28bc9787e3aa98e917cd420c6514bf832
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs hosted on compromised or disposable domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm suggests an intent to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cb+background+hd+pic PDF link annotation
    • http://hz-kontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugukifixonoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c9800d50a---20777850636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1053d71acbce07619b9a8da56c0cc4d9/nulakomovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c496d61e648---pesukiroberibugejedinete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.generalutilities.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a43ca43589b---pugaliwexegemumix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9d3c0ecbb---xiwinemuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202108311000589099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lodopomosusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075bdaa84904---70207163314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ysmenmidwestindia.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/likifapuzigomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kystop.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/povmo1tbav4lhr7uhc7jv3u474/73882437811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amblamy.ee/upload/file/fivexamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fceb97da1853129b528797f5c53a8b5/96956876091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886dc1d259e---48450506396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdbchurch.com/clients/43262/File/44536472821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qpgqno2tckqaekbnjgos8uhq1/11276656190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c547d1a1e77---29306779477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35888143209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce7556a65c3bd9f3aa7523bcdb75a099/sixavamixonupige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608533d7adc0c---julozubuxukixupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/75846770240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8abac8070fa398023042e55e9754ed25/272639427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/61818932388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tropo-design.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suvebumujevivowaberevizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maszyny.pl/userfiles/file/livolinonuw.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_off0000de15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f627.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF627 17380 bytes
SHA-256: cfbf2091a3f84632ace6227b8a967459afe0ba4ca9af17efe852cc38caf5cbac
font_02_sfnt_off00012353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12353 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 9d7436faf0f387e18e4e0c538c5105f625abebedacdb0214c32f47dea66271ac

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