Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e893f5cd45af3b12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-07-16 09:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e9a22b7890716e4d3f7ea2c9444194ce SHA-1: 07be14174c0962d5efb137fb3d3c6b579884460d SHA-256: e893f5cd45af3b12ff294d0cd298d09d7f471cc0327c5ec1d8dbc8462cc2346f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host and distribute malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=father+christopher+jamison PDF link annotation
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724634ca3ec---puvigifudajikanonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/zagememubarijire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bb2c2f64d---41658247440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dc7f28993918e6513eb96d0a5de005b/piwetov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/749580c07662a3954553f70468910323/17485204317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab32d644d19---43144274946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb5785c9eb6681d8de8c8711d2a04d69/69172277378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b400d130746---65976053913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/56625176837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/zamogisiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddcadbc945e---rizuletutifidezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/28821443024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090c8987990a---kanititotuzoxanomito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160867dfd8ffd0---35017376075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5455a1b1a7c2cc646b72e320ae5cc2a/vejesawezapetulofolasoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q2fjokigm06hdt2h6u8f2otqia/sigesetemakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marthatrotts.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080bcb42f2a3---48571680387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/35793882061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coopmong.com/ckupload/files/8957268144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81394457545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fobiy.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/932dc52b0c6dd77ee0c44cf8f8ff5487/zopugutawabemilezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/kokezovugugaxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99447495373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevimticaret.net/userfiles/file/zewipepewowularogevuzofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/89249343526.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_off0000f5cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5CC 17088 bytes
SHA-256: b16afc4a4a846f1af2632f5f408c5b87370ed3c1c7839a3c00e2c571ab4e676b
font_01_sfnt_off0001229c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229C 10700 bytes
SHA-256: d1dfccaac3905f10d54c4e2f8069a6f96034bb92ae5427722bbec133b19159ba
font_02_sfnt_off00013af9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1