Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ae57e1bbb0b284f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:34:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7c4680b44ec36b5659370d2b7af9cf7c SHA-1: eb7584e4601455299b0dd79000be4ab28cc81756 SHA-256: 2ae57e1bbb0b284fba84f3ef004c7b24a817a64fa45f7f484b2222c9abeb0f02
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF's structure and the presence of external URIs indicate it's likely used as a lure to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://www.vignolaweb.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/texoful.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eebc6723da---ratasokizebugikatobej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents/files/65236340007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://radecznica.pl/userfiles/file/96609562971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dungcuruamui.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mc7h63dpu7lcv3ttrfrqah0hfb/xuropilovowunefupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5820006c5331b129933e453ca47684cf/kikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.com/webroot/img/files/61497420868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ppntassone.it/dati/upload/file/22041339850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/pinenafoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaemsp.org/upload/editor/file/waxovifajokuvawapozuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109070509594586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6457f3lnu03a1arvi6fpa0bj61/xezelisuxixaxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/45341253107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obchodsezlatem.cz/upload/files/10243397775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/pigoripisixapabamek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insureavisitor.com/userfiles/file/xafedafumakugujurapigez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/33420272716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/mifobomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lucaslobker.com/minor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/biwakopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushistoryus.com/uploads/files/83080416264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/godiwutufepugilile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/jisiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieye.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/84154052476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/mavefovonilomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkbin.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39315670969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j1c02b731ndjmfquo95deu562c/85597440073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+your+name+on+hotmailPDF 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_off0000e47b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE47B 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 1a3956f90bf635e1a4b9b719746338230abb1d759f54bc36655c26b87ca88f16
font_01_sfnt_off000111b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000129cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CC 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 73426c40c4dfbf60a71b7550e31ddcd97f796e466a4088f7e119139595307a82