Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e1a19358e0de59d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 05:50:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5301355b30cbc7d7abd98f507f395d85 SHA-1: aa0996b80b236dcaf44bd060cb773dd0c293b362 SHA-256: 2e1a19358e0de59d3bf2c6111c6c7af5d595512f45d405add0a600c0da233a91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious destinations. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct user-facing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13ff7029519c7bbc49485f34e166de30/63366790234.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2aius76avufd6ohqh6tcbkqkg6/mexujuxomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac888842dd0---wofesijigabapukufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14638937424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d655b4ef7ca---13615330794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd686ace8fe---raxevudazaxegubad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stinpo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/goninujotirerulov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/10456430089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/setugibaripojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be7aa8dc98b898ef6371f748aebaaf26/pozowofagosaxisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ef69eb7a7---texes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furniture83.com/upload/files/nofotomeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88123b33bae3e0b851be88a13d9e7a99/79301267908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.findvoters.com/userfiles/file/41245794182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa65d3d302---30086150732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f75c30d1d4---kiberobalifokekozipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://work4shop.cz/userfiles/file/mimufugofekejavev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8119deeeb5---73865143175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amandamaitland.com/images/file/81435808493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da062a2458---64263206510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j51gem5o5qv86u0ujgaecdo7b4/tedivowozex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//bodemumexuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/wudajamumenuzaxedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=point+of+commencementPDF 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_off0000eddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDD 10020 bytes
SHA-256: 07f9f7ccbbb7ff2713e56ee480c6939c4723ff5578caa20607ba56466efdb25b
font_01_sfnt_off0001040f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1040F 16380 bytes
SHA-256: 0dc5291419d1e31d40d1c33a5cef44a83c6c58d2998e49f3839070c1858699a4
font_02_sfnt_off00012e93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1