Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e4c08310b277a4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-08-23 19:17:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 52e8cd2754c261b16eebeb090f7e1062 SHA-1: d86dbae81d1293dbf427c1bc2516f38e2ab3ecec SHA-256: 2e4c08310b277a4d8effdb8ba24a98019bf5ce2cd808945273307c76e600f6d5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to leverage these to host or distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/67478319702.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fashiongale.ro/userfiles/files/2622903293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/mitagawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/gebipawivakarepavuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mognational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a58b649032b---lakomoribuburarudedokuzun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/33463219785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/62356071241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikhmongol.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fodujabilunorakiguja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/43479905492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081da021f960---75958738400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/55456909674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/45073878399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/xabanepeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixitirunaguxizebopazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://payassistinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c7a7a46523---zavifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biancoacolori.it/userfiles/files/31687636660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veronikavilla.hu/userfiles/file/wixazibekibipetufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/dikusiseta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfbcdb4ce1f224800d6d37e15049550b/xapuvevifepufelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elmawadah.com/userfiles/file/34844894282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediaworld.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fivigodarozepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herfon-machinery.com/images/ckfinder/files/20210713041420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=subtitles+for+harry+potter+and+the+sorcerer%27s+stonePDF 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_off0000f2ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AC 11180 bytes
SHA-256: ed38a0c3b5889b0958d4d91c64b766af4ea7d5eb7bd0c88932b7d6c742e61d77
font_01_sfnt_off00010c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C90 17744 bytes
SHA-256: bc236220725a9c5b8282b3a89d67fa0a54f153348e840b0d2d1a67ead8e41ffd
font_02_sfnt_off00013aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AA6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1