Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e2c950ae6f4a827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:47:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 7af0c8c3eb990fdee644079135e5835c SHA-1: 263de7f199c2ea4cb982de72401401dacb6d86fd SHA-256: 2e2c950ae6f4a827ec2d9d43ea50ec5290a71f478592b9564bf4f3369be03215
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://thuaphatlailongthanh.com/upload/contentFile/minhchau/file/kokamomom.pdf
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71924554586.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicostradi.eu/userfiles/files/72297114804.pdf
    • https://ikansambel.com/contents/files/99511624657.pdf
    • https://shining4u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7fd30ecb13e5c88af6190442fbcdc10/57096845351.pdf
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/74470756419.pdf
    • https://ofertaromania.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84158811855.pdf
    • http://shijijiaming.net/filespath/files/20210912230840.pdf
    • http://thevalleytrader.com/files/67847885781.pdf
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/gusopuginokijodorara.pdf
    • http://kp-technik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53902977882.pdf
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/xebowil.pdf
    • http://getawaynewzealand.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ed8fdaeaff---76886523362.pdf
    • http://skupka23.ru/upload/m/50430311602.pdf
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143d4811840c---98673909105.pdf
    • https://jooli.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/demufafepawirepijamebe.pdf
    • http://santehnika34.ru/images/file/dugerojizej.pdf
    • https://sandalyecenneti.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pq9b4tbsruc1cbl04uvasra8c0/rajilesigolibezonufaxifet.pdf
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vajokibefagituxopix.pdf
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xuxegijere.pdf
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/17699300292.pdf
    • http://songpinhao.com/userfiles/files/71463446882.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161340d5446b52---muruzas.pdf
    • http://coolscape.info/images/files/tepekirubekad.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=free+20+wishes+genshin
    • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df90.bin
83a8dcf5e8dc42578300b0fd2da72a228ffbd760dac961d4142c8b603e75e3ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF90 10264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6b4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B4 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ec6.bin
d3990a69da0520a18b3d1608219e7c4d7b185201f3aea46c00c431c37237ab19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EC6 17860 bytes