Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e905dd9599c86ab3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.5 KB Created: 2021-06-10 08:31:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ed74a66c00c07acb6a0c088402da6d74 SHA-1: 2ab80de1dd21dea81fe34d3041f63ab6f2b4428c SHA-256: e905dd9599c86ab31a71e93a41000efd74ec786765562632f32b9a518ec70414
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+farming+system+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0dbe3445e---totimedosigetutopazodike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clear-es.net/yamituki-n/uploads/files/jatug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0583126e162eb3c4fe84906c8e965887/wusinewodebus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjsyrj.com/userfiles/file/81519573675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad4fd25f68---munabevabiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd0493b1b0---59972045972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6178c281a58d260ae7c6c1352b93c501/26166683136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.telsercom.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1388ca84d7---refebiwowebanatisuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/udas9jlc5rpqkv97cb6mvcbacu4ronap/37397063971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087c92985a82---didijewisofusavujisuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41360a220c3022a205ddb511620e4752/16494456191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bandotrading.com/uploads/file/rezulajirifopalaxororaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/jajidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f282d31d34---fonerokakof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcb6588fa6f35f5745a500a4dc1e6f97/5126961763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6ff2f7af---zevoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/25957125948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/levezopetaxigowuwilebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00014087.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14087 5168 bytes
SHA-256: ebf2652153a28f11c9cfd6ef0d888824b883e06d27aa093f8a47a65f84a5e03d
font_01_sfnt_off00015210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15210 12096 bytes
SHA-256: 510931649b005e4d1778802a955c2830fa89b50a300bd6b4d6afaf3ffae7955a
font_02_sfnt_off00017b1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B1A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3