Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e1db7e99e67e85e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 14:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2c29827210b9f59d81c37eaaefe9a24e SHA-1: 5bdaa2636708df04bdb73d8688490424cfc6f1d2 SHA-256: 2e1db7e99e67e85ec61a6bac964fa5de2283b596717ff96db821bb427b40df8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of an attempt to exploit users via malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hibachi+vegetable+fried+rice PDF link annotation
    • https://x-software.cz/data/file/42975294399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210614002441_1489697986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprilboya.com/userfiles/file/rokifedutomesipifukaxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archpiudue.com/userfiles/files/69157860050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/zowivoteberi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c08100d23bf---kutek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrykakonwersji.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4f9be79f6d5808113950797f5698a8/janomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d4f35d5f562add713a6e6b7844b4fd/13288416191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z-i-f.ru/userfiles/file/77361756347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0d5ab0cc9---23725733558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/lazasafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/31908085129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160822fe40bde9---64242592430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6b6d99af2e74a4c1e01d6a708a205f/jelujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dfecb308e---nularilizuvajigudod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef4c59e8ba0d9dd7f3244dac6bb234d/xelasirarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a9c90127e8---61074502614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tif.cn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk83p3ivo980c5lsbne35enb5t/61669496535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgpropertylawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62692eb8b6050f887f93ba941310b8db/83561746105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afae4280fa001ad14c93453e9298970d/gigizumewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1cb48c7d51---20179720320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f95f12093---xubejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-pass.com/folder/editor/file/puramejoxotitegituwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f0ae8d98b63429b63084ea8df3da1a/80977790278.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_off0000f7a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7A7 10560 bytes
SHA-256: d47e08eb649974c08a2424002ed25f423ad3d963b8f20f0eb6cef50ac4e34879
font_01_sfnt_off00010fa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FA7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127B9 18172 bytes
SHA-256: 26735068fa8a7b5eb4a932d8f0caa85e574bb46add6a01d71e789a6dc1f80a4c