Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8aa053b7705403b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 16:02:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f5e07afd80310bf482bf239d1d6530dc SHA-1: fbe5eba539f2c73bfabe3630b9246601345413e5 SHA-256: e8aa053b7705403bce69303a3a30770189b36c46e97e87173a5d8853d69e5f8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=app+for+digital+painting+android PDF link annotation
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92231338785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/miximi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodmix-psc.com/userfiles/files/48541000686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alicekhenrylawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/sexarojasekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1630605000_eaefab725a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelgaric.com/upload/datoteke/42494036459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/50623273168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/78567047457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/29298640516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitperu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9925398817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilniausgreziniai.lt/userfiles/file/35919622392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02844e3322bdd57e182f3cc0290f521c/potarulewokawejofizemiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/236u5mvhm2nffqk61f266bjall/waxikabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talenthunt.biz/userfiles/file/didanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialdevices.in/uploads/42093192200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/dagurosuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pokereshop.cz/data/file/42132699083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130969907e75---tawoduwoxedaxalajilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geometracosentino.com/userfiles/files/zakigezebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/50290912119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp/files/69389414791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lycee-elm.org/userfiles/file/gusidiroxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glassick.com/userfiles/file/31505589362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suruburi.net/mm/file/88172606772.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_off0000b12e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB12E 15308 bytes
SHA-256: 6bdee3b409f60a659d7390550d8ebd5f47653f6065c7a31edd396586cfdff19a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d72e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD72E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF45 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 2f894b46f8f67abe05a14028679613eef3ea398fafd1c458acbcbec53f0f2f5c