Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8dda51e98401035…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-06-25 23:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: eb67e23d0d4325df6693f7e00677721a SHA-1: 7d5f75cfd6b42f852dd1ce432ba6dcd332fcbffc SHA-256: e8dda51e98401035e42156565b00f2f8ce93bd7e364d64157c3ba6760648324a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to phishing or malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically indicates this pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=components+of+electron+microscope
    • https://nakipoglugroup.com/upload/ckfinder/files/89800585035.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/tawakawarox.pdf
    • http://cuatudongbinhduong.net/uploads/files/vopap.pdf
    • http://cichanski.com/Upload/file/8242251255.pdf
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ht112bh4rr1biqckl2chbehbt8/xejosamejelezukarovudo.pdf
    • https://irantruck.ir/data/file/57076179434.pdf
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e49a46ddc581657ad8eefe05b0d71a/tiwebedopak.pdf
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/47998594379.pdf
    • http://www.dj-csnl.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af2b9b67730---pavodimi.pdf
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartgallery.com/clientMedia/file/45552939844.pdf
    • http://tuzvedo.hu/elemek/file/juvupigodipudivod.pdf
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/lalopixixulo.pdf
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b3feaea15---xipubawutexe.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160844bcfb8e4f---89065829574.pdf
    • http://thm-holding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea11d6dea68bab8e89b19d4b7c9b2bc1/94830376423.pdf
    • https://laneopx.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4255dd70e4---34674211660.pdf
    • http://cafehinglung.com/uploads/files/14466544825.pdf
    • https://unosms.us/userfiles/file/solidubibag.pdf
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5116e85fb0d0d2434eaecce0da7580ee/rojijusupif.pdf
    • http://project-st.ru/userfiles/file/wasirasifesato.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a128332fab3---nevubizafisumerojevode.pdf
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8t48id3mk750rag722dkl0sv1t/37578192372.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed09.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED09 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010520.bin
a8560898ef57d47467f6c48e73cf0e360ca508fc2fb8a9337ed31d472bad4ce0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10520 10508 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011cfd.bin
a508a93b9732cf04a12a6722d354d389cf2a46d3d4b9d772ca73883c5a9dfbcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CFD 17344 bytes