Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 100e2e569141f3ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:42:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: a867f2a6b37c815a57137f9219d784bc SHA-1: 42b40180b326efe3dca54e8d485210897c47134e SHA-256: 100e2e569141f3ce46539fc56b1ad720501d9f8a4572c27192592e23917d2d5b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the ML classification indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent, such as phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/6342297784.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/gagota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/zigosumufanimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/st0r9r4u3dqrq2fk2kskbu6k02/dufimigobavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/jezutipaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmdschoolandcollege.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkug701mnrc9f7v29lr1onqm52/42638400293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e2f5349a69---74170236815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martonaroniskola.net/userfiles/file/vetidarenedusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/97358590275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cedicar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083751bac0b7---vedaxanavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b40a1c484f---19646045145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3e57900f1b---kovuvodosexuroteza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e555c480e0b---74823761942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/banumegaxovinugakawuxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/5670543988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160766750e5779---5617046338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd4nc60v9jahjoa177qqd1e860/28216142395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bobecoingatlan.com/uploads/editor/file/94434702997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.groupenahno.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ubphq20tb16ovmlfsh3151ualt/29774309957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strefa-fitness.pl//fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/phpplikifile/kenirakozowoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akarchlight.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94dba015558d550048a96ef1a0ad0107/zodavavuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=project+startup+plan+examplePDF 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_off0000e65c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE65C 16256 bytes
SHA-256: 0712b21d7c2f9db32292d28f16cbe008eb8010f55df45a74ffd2f747a34895fd
font_01_sfnt_off00011079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11079 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 667b1a346bc65b3cce01b6f23b3b6d91add3adeb960ec573e64caf09a5924137
font_02_sfnt_off0001295e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1295E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1