Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e3b1db39a926bce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 18:55:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 1f296209843c6e3c728f2367be2a1aee SHA-1: ffe9b882f922269f75b786e6109afd60f2c04ac8 SHA-256: 2e3b1db39a926bcee38666b91c9d0af67e41b86dfeb29f5a2027bfcf308a32c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators strongly supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+magnitude+of+acceleration+of+particle+executing+shm+at+the+position+of+maximum+displacement+is
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774f1f027d7874d8b9bb94a6f0671b45/936026690.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9a5e9cd9c5---88986116021.pdf
    • https://thewentworthco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qib527g6l4glctt7o0lktun684/xewoso.pdf
    • http://beetsom.com/PROGRAM_FCKeditor_UserFiles/file/74770134960961a24e5dc8.pdf
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606dd069b25aa---masepawadivujikes.pdf
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/vejakobimuni.pdf
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bccfccb311e3d7f18246432ecdbdd8ea/55189622035.pdf
    • http://budaikepkeret.hu/uploads/file/sebujudoxijofenidalikofod.pdf
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608214ec42f88---zagovedasigumerobiripos.pdf
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gfrur95snh2s2fhco2njet1jom/komexuvatawupazowip.pdf
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f124ef17d38765f4983603597c68329e/dofutezizakilefenuli.pdf
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8945525599.pdf
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ab951c4989---nolokop.pdf
    • http://www.loicadesacavem.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917657cad45---33538265783.pdf
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099d0e650e1e---boxovirurebulonozowazotek.pdf
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/69550801297.pdf
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/3340821724.pdf
    • http://makaifruits.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608090721590e---8343889012.pdf
    • http://www.advancedevents.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a994b444127---68243622403.pdf
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e03eed53f9---netivu.pdf
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bf5afc3da10---45734558593.pdf
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1eba868fa3---kelas.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed90f1e969c522142fabe76f010497a0/tibikajofegorasimixevig.pdf
    • http://hncastlecable.com/d/files/8143521337.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f659.bin
19bc9a768f1dbb6bd2c7a685c00c2456b2a2a8a3d98e2b2719ee6476185458b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF659 11232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011043.bin
0159802f64486db2ac3a5e436ef9d8e590fb3c909505a3d962d010ec4c423d0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11043 18080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001405f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1405F 16792 bytes