Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e2459bfeecf07b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 08:08:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4a376a9a11407bc524334de3d91a4e30 SHA-1: 32f3557cb39ea09b37271ef1f24fc82634f6f781 SHA-256: 1e2459bfeecf07b31e463b2ba0ceb05f9c29d98a0420ef8d56f1d1b9dc7455de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity, likely leading to a phishing page or a second-stage download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=esl+contractions+worksheet+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbc749785ce75ea40f3be6317369c528/12653453299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127cf5b729f5---niwunolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunglivet.com/uploads/files/202108150147099704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/durefivozowixideperakaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/45341631403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aydin-elektrik.com/resimler/files/54852844901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiorampinelli.com/file/46020627485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iberryhomemade.com/userfiles/files/gixalegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bfda61fbafc256325f7c014de74d365e/45749165362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fe29c53724---36030162089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/32238181586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161081490caa5c---vemiduvemam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e081a2000---80976837610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/81619081940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf6a1c3bbd45b42f4f0a6ab5ec668ce3/leweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhorseride.com/userfiles/file/40770127627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210606165747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44c27f5a72c1d2c673077d2e77bec29a/42768046469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/wuxudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renetravel.ro/images/files/nowexe.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b04b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB04B 10876 bytes
SHA-256: d72bdb2979a310e94615e7c18e3f7b9e98fcf49376699426eab8a3c64a0251ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000c961.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC961 16600 bytes
SHA-256: 23b67bca79393e1b7747a72bcb84e0db8751ca81270c6636b29bcefdf7400a91
font_02_sfnt_off0000f299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF299 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1