Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e265b71fd093c69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 08:45:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: e2cf274cb6dbfea7293bb49c53d7b6cb SHA-1: a3b5fa372878e7ef31710076c4ac14684865f6db SHA-256: 2e265b71fd093c69c565c5c022aeb5a9fc9c05151a6567edab39e22fcc45c426
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, suggesting it is used to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6a777825821f6c7e9d8e433fefc79d5/25307004862.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7b8817dcfb4c078e6e6cf96d38b0a83/piwirufekaxufeneteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosperitas.be/data/assets/file/bakutilufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfa31303b7a---68885379003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b773b22931f---26692027757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artofsurfing.com/preview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84890434421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c54558d66f16bf7e8a93a5c393eeb54/13305488368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca2a9c46d5---94305422585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://absolutelyneon.com/userfiles/file/kozuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0586ae13c1---40558135287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/mesen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f57f8e6ffc4---86567053753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7d01bc7e76734c33f303e14910ed5b8/4129626317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/wututewudawiramiwefigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cblnciknfng6514d8c0e45nnin/32497022616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c52ec7a46c6---fuwawozelududewob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5hv7eugkoubutl43uue8390hi7/nabumowul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utuin.net/files/fckeditor/file/rapizafini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06fe0cfe583755ed2aef6357418fd256/13167719895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/36668013209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nothingbutsafetyglasses.com/userfiles/file/88493055039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca20371e63---61226729993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eandjfamilyhealthcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b1de9ef445e40895cf4710f29d0ea5c/sivomizav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94b6f142deb7d035cafe380c55e28b08/39269689322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=juegos+de+memoria+para+ni%C3%B1os+de+3+a+6+a%C3%B1os+para+imprimirPDF 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_off0000f2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2DA 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 6fff0fdd1d55df5205903b297bc675120569ac1ffbf5d5afe1538bc41c4ba6a0
font_01_sfnt_off0001202c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1202C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13843 11228 bytes
SHA-256: 4589a6d8a5670587418b2106d2c18e219f595c4bca45b16f3f3881bebf52210a