Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e1ea274ac657548…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-10 02:14:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f74462dd7d4853734550cc6a64fa6953 SHA-1: 4d7e7b2bb53a06f241e6792ae9270b86a43af6f3 SHA-256: 2e1ea274ac6575486c84cf76530bbc02c5fe5818e20d4ca07a1f7878b109290b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable binary data, suggesting it's not intended for direct user interaction but rather to host malicious links.

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 http://studiotipaldo.com/userfiles/files/piguxejowes.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://recviem.ru/img/upload/46564914718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alquimia.in/admin/fckeditor/editorfile/63329372807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/pazovenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/69575861306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdemlerkoleji.com/resimler/files/54567108784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/xumadogezivalukujukemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jvcc.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/210904020217742483sye4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/36850238939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/16139da661cb11---militexudagiwimulakivaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://instalacje-elektryczne.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47986433214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zikuvimere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baheth24aqari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lusotozujoxofarinuvimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindicav.com.br/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70696638294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/79653028276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.net/images/upload/File/godomeratogofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/259de2873a926b404ce2315b5362eeff/67047499740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sapodafarazuwizekujivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hmgfinance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gutunuzuvotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/89846969544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89734057573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132588a98f19---93127052307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328acab37f6---kenekugutet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131d44102f32---95545050998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geasit.it/userfiles/files/tujawadulugubepimanuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=hotstar+free+download+app+for+androidPDF 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_off0000bb55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB55 10568 bytes
SHA-256: f8e1c7753274e0419f0ccbc6c454bcff361758f27ef1a4e6b88b7e1b8c2b9d29
font_01_sfnt_off0000d390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD390 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000eba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA2 16828 bytes
SHA-256: 4706de211f2a0a19fdad2750a1c8bcbd6175cc24b2f7c71b98cebccdb23a1049