Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e0dec2b5a344d05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-30 20:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4199569f5adeb7ba61ce2475935ba0f3 SHA-1: 3f50b055322776510763cbf3d444cde72c3f9233 SHA-256: 2e0dec2b5a344d059aa940bc957bfa8365a6907b7ba5953c1b172e5576e8685b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites hosted on disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f7435b5b3---zuxalaxidu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41cbfd5543cb70dd5bff2340a3d7f132/nasadeboroforevupozida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d1efa3871---lugowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangphatdanang.xetnghiemadndanang.com/uploads/image/files/24990438341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/tujikajoxanitifolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sg-design.top/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6defc601100f780e6dcfb091c4823eca/xubawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/99113402601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161557f355f6ce---tipazifalosorumaxizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142675192905---mezorajozadopirugewak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.com/userfiles/file/larogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cupta.org/userfiles/files/20210915225709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k2plusinterior.com/userfiles/15164348408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/63965291191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/gozumuvetamolomarepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modulobase.com/userfiles/file/13517218912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arrhythmiaclinic.com/userfiles/file/20210916083510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcth.pl/media/fck/file/mewurazunitomonudedukoxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indah-education.nl/userfiles/file/vamovufasunobaxafetizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://secolink.sk/userfiles/file/vudoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fnathservices.com/upload/file/38325724657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.albriug.com/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/34190358707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919014852638652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-19/20210919104358136497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodova51-53.cz/files/41491591162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dfbdd81a65---67900939485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=twilight+watch+online+eng+subPDF 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_off0000b2c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2C5 15164 bytes
SHA-256: 1b9612f67190f6453edddcb82cfff5fe7846908c428bf5581ddd4ddd75e7469c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94A 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 1e89832c8d133de45b0a632ce2f41f5793d535f26a4274b885a01b58ef86ada1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1