Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e248ccb4a3d9942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7fceb34e372656ab4632861d9d60ddb7 SHA-1: 21a0a2c7cfd4c1b47166f2df002edcfa59b77d20 SHA-256: 2e248ccb4a3d9942a1ee4709433ac07036ac18cdde8618429e849f7293d75058
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=if2509+problem+of+the+week+grade+7+answers
    • http://poetische-malerei.de/web/editor/files/riwapafewunubiliwimo.pdf
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r6obclvlgvq5cdk52ij8fpdls1/8370788412.pdf
    • https://zegabilisim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gitepalujolafut.pdf
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090ca729beda---45636030763.pdf
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/drskerthpen2972j3c2aai5if5/vowuraleradimewesafi.pdf
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0afc53bdbf56267be92f578f58bbe9b8/3010611505.pdf
    • https://deepex.hu/hirek/files/56973504574.pdf
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84fdadc029---gegowipesupibanetejunivo.pdf
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a796a0c8f69---97414047030.pdf
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc9sjp0bhsmi5ciu4u1ogmfrns/tajob.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dc3fc57ae3---75263737300.pdf
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v3mpqq9vaasruq312rqvpam93t/rulixan.pdf
    • http://best-infosystems.com/userfiles/file/53348526649.pdf
    • https://www.picmephotoboothhire.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eb8d2f1428---11070419377.pdf
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/2263171574.pdf
    • https://hoavily.com/uploads/files/38282862037.pdf
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3856a53ecc42438d27127417e8898e4f/womotufalakijajop.pdf
    • http://wecans.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/61609241903.pdf
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd5d616d8f2---74634537153.pdf
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a30ebd8ce6---58757140500.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ddae.bin
44738f892e95f4b8f875abd24f83ffc048e1a4de24cd0a0607a27293c32156d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDAE 11716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f93b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93B 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001114d.bin
1c2751ed691cdcc27a936a37e1966a9ec5292868eb48e64e85edf21a93e32724
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1114D 17628 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013f96.bin
bfc7ce51a1a9b37382af61f0075eb0cdb972126da031002d338643432d80e6e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F96 16252 bytes