Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e39b0e8a06f4655…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.4 KB Created: 2021-07-06 01:05:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1f77685dccdebda91f90177fed6a3996 SHA-1: abe391bfee05b7156ec46f5234f20649433cf2c0 SHA-256: 2e39b0e8a06f465574ba82bff363e00d825c120a1bbd428ddb980b752625e061
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 http://arohitourandtravels.com/userfiles/file/zonan.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://garyjetcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca2694261882c963914f08fe82b28c11/zebabevoroxojadosaxezure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c174d17fb419755bd24de62d424af9f9/zikesilomomozemirukolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607889a6c3fb2---tugukopewinuterutab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isagenixmakessense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masufedoxafagaxalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acethamessecurity.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b504e63d1671e3928c648fb4ea37644e/85355511845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/derefewoxiwajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nebo52.ru/uploads/files/pemowopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fietenhaardenenkachels.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f16f21d7b---79458966908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5a8647a6ecb832c638b4cd8ad7aebcb/82795985140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orbitsecurity.qa/pro_mvp_tech/uploads/file/sakaworesononig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorialuishervas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac518699de9---17332142658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39b6058282---6393087910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mhspartan79.com/clients/9/97/97d0d0788ec4d6723ba7be3cd58769e3/File/pemuzezekinefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1866c662741e1edc96bf7c954b4b8c40/gexizefelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrislahoda.ca/userfiles/file/gomadobomerunosipojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b92125d0a469f1518cfe494605ef416/61415592690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608962adcacf6---volegunano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f54d70d5ee---bufafofuzagowotewazuxos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dna3khhj94u218gf4qjl1iqjs4/miwiwoxipiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://color-gateway.com/userfiles/file/vibivozizosigifowuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://granitemountainranch.net/userimages/judusoguxinumarutusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210515/file/16210942394803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=how+much+time+it+takes+for+background+checkPDF 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_off0000ff3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3E 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 1873393a63d8069d09c24b4ffa195fa9031922d377232f98981cc2f9182feba1
font_01_sfnt_off00011965.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11965 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013177.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13177 16744 bytes
SHA-256: f65b6bb609da765f6d7c01eadbd85ad1827099830e41bb9c146e837c561c9f82