Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e95ce8560f163920…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 04:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2838e8aadc362734613b559256e1a8fe SHA-1: 28fe828a9194efa790e0244011aec1ede8ffb086 SHA-256: e95ce8560f1639202d04ef81a57eb12182257fb8a40bcdca920f64170cca3d2c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for SEO spam or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure suggests a link farm designed to distribute traffic or potentially host further malicious content.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=self+referencing+canonicals
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea9bcc19eb---24657075879.pdf
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a65218922f16e48fe288731905a5a1e7/2738223806.pdf
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/52842630355.pdf
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6fd1e9c14---61522059107.pdf
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro3j5ufec03ta3qgbpmqtpe9hl/68978187780.pdf
    • https://www.cr-sdc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5993ad680cc59d9a0894bd64bbf4f9b2/refawexi.pdf
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/zudelelugebalitipo.pdf
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/bolewitawabefafudiv.pdf
    • http://allasclub.com/campannas/file/80149209955.pdf
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/7871411282.pdf
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a32b5779f5dc0e70c87a3a4502619386/74741538616.pdf
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nrsgkvpi4jvm8gq8hfgjlel3nu/nurutuwejiromunivu.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac29e2cf309---76564785664.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7412bcf88---30405925062.pdf
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098fc3b17d01---lutigibofewi.pdf
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/asicq7bo4s18dfajlbo8aiar55/47847752498.pdf
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8vskhc1u2h6ebjrs823apl5hb5/67378399618.pdf
    • http://ecohost.ru/pics/images/file/19427862903.pdf
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c63fffc0c83---fekibat.pdf
    • http://moestuinwebshop.nl/userfiles/file/voxape.pdf
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14ad07be40ffa9ae41c4aa1f5b7ff770/15057550255.pdf
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/mibofavubimilavoniminubul.pdf
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8bfcbd546a---98291165374.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_off00010746.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10746 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f5d.bin
69f2e40465c87fbe330545df1d5c590eb6f823c3a124cde982af343cd0805c49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5D 10488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013744.bin
3bc14ae980ac1f49608e3b92d5d0bec22e1634b5593403fe1e56e25e29b2b0de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13744 16940 bytes