Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e0e50b2798b7512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.1 KB Created: 2021-07-19 05:48:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c2eff6a45d68c445a7fdb122cea34ddf SHA-1: 204725722102a076c7be00b53c9e21107dfbec50 SHA-256: 2e0e50b2798b751253c7075c05107f72f4b92b7a1f3d000adb4ed2c5022cb8b3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, with numerous distinct hosts. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://call.ae/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed08c105f1---91031862257.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072bc4966f9e---voxusodufugaluniva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd346eac8921ca9fff90d258a05b8915/76656733134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/wapodumoxafoketezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevenetianmask.com/clients/71561/File/18426910322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djennebeads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/mataxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26bbb7e856a858360f6e7c695e42181d/melezitopatofimijiwukawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7375a57f6ced721864e5e1970a26ed44/dibifuzojinid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b30630b3a83---jowexevol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/zosazajogifumadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df2up49gb3csl54dr80q3kif87/85348205104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raykingcarroll66.com/clients/2/29/292092747e06e0ab09130fa737b110c0/File/zubetakedezuratori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unicornproduction.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97beb5e876c05afe0b0272ae074b9e75/sobexibanetezenus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celiapopememorial.com/clients/4/45/45605e685ba8a3b32f56966823665796/File/22944610200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eska-lift.ru/userfiles/file/94586691067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075353b46f82---xubuziduvefesemoribiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/10762298670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatanggiabao.com/images/uploads/files/tozeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/9947483761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicinasolidale.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69302f93282687c8c451972ff6a58f21/67181725004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorfulmedia.de/fotki/fotki/file/zisuveruba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608980b91bfa6---notodulakaxetogijisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070daaaba8ae---benigexutifekutirojibita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48e4616ee7---9177731478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=reproof+meaning+in+englishPDF 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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e276.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE276 20176 bytes
SHA-256: 81da8530d739bd73e2db13eb20dc94b470ea140a099d14aeef2b086e180d30b5
font_01_sfnt_off00011691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11691 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E9E 2364 bytes
SHA-256: a520e12e5527634a8ad0ad7c5e1db989378bdcadb81500a3569492b3caecb6aa
font_03_sfnt_off000138d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138D4 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a7931de2451ee619c8c856927c2100e51b9812e1d56fe584113a2f6ca041e953
font_04_sfnt_off0001514a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1514A 17976 bytes
SHA-256: 710b8b01884fbaefa614b2174e572a50ba8391d398eb33a6e87162f5448cb0f9