Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e2b763518839aec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 10:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: d3112ec5ec2478cdc3d83aa82c5b1960 SHA-1: 503be1276be83a051d0f5dfbaf6aaee2ff6b491f SHA-256: 2e2b763518839aec46e45075661d675ab262229113af8f6054d823f486a5bd67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms, specifically WordPress installations. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis clearly show a pattern of linking to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/685cr4oug3bqnscbhq93bkqjhi/diteberojo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9c0dcf77ab28af4addbc66e094c4d21/pojoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m4ul5a18ab97unq841vr0o6a80/54880895434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1072fa0de0---89027482733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ac31462778---31989894870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1420abfd57c4f7be73e1b1f6065ea3d7/nunepabivabikexutuwulofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barudan.hk/UploadFile/file/20210830103014528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c3993d047c78bc879bfb3274066bc5e0/rubesolopijopomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d641e5e995---fiwigaxado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cp-tournament.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59653909852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwenazogakexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woorymart.com/userData/board/file/domowaxolexonuniteso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmkaudit.sk/101/upload/file/3296371241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distributoram.com/files/file/1171338314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/88908528227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35832c3a1ae52286b60c6846ab3e06e/meguvamuxuxuduvuturumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc8b0f97f57---kadudukedoxuwetepap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd7b258804b---zegokuvom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinogas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s4iok7o2u5qsnk4nmdtft1uum/57087509786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077bab68f6bb---fuzafapeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fb39e1c730---xaporuwurame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/71015499844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.electriclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccd21493f5c6296b4393f3dbf5d56b2d/tesagididu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=streuselschnecke+kurzgeschichte+pdfPDF 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_off0000bc42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC42 18408 bytes
SHA-256: 0158f88fd90206ca3ee8b17b96f51440bcf714acdcd5829b6788dd51d76ff6e5
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA60 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 1e5f31c483ea8f325df662fa3f8ad6e6ee5267b931faaf862a94acdbbe1dfd76
font_02_sfnt_off00010379.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10379 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1