Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e2d8cbee81311a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:28:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 202d89782d5807e3888327907a2cdca7 SHA-1: 39982d6f5d65b614387c11294af4ca39ba04de87 SHA-256: 0e2d8cbee81311a3aea958df5a7c6aa8cc85d386fbe40065e510cb92edc8dbc8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF containing embedded JavaScript, which is a common technique for exploiting vulnerabilities or delivering malicious content. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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 http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eacb888acb---36297404024.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/84191203559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiredriver.com/uploads/assets/files/nowafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://raovat72.vn/uploads/news_file/bototonavogufigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/nixeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles/file/18066227430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/lugusuxalaposataweto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/lusogezutajekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungquanghieu.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/kakiratuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/farapixewatoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14619339746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ndt-ultratech.com/files/ligusobinuruwidegisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/13837377958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/647d429c908f390b7a2390e434f2d20f/34087413469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeansresource.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mavinidabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/jelikedunupab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60381126566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bvqn8brq3m125tol7mhkq3v7q/wididumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketex.com/trcgp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fidoxatirakiwikezofik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7938768c1---valagewarowemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://priscar.com/documents/files/28479006067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spc1991.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34763708538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ca02206f6---melin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c304d9f44b---82037991660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=stream+pc+videos+to+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD687 10772 bytes
SHA-256: d7ab517dffbfa563ef0d9288166e7dad8070bd6785ca759a4fbf27715f9470a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF4D 17516 bytes
SHA-256: d75aba560ce78c787bd222c6c7af5d76472d4014c107ecb150431935c319e75c
font_02_sfnt_off00011bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1