Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e4c4a0de7d2dabb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-06-18 20:23:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 4388c64dbc7c1a52dd88b499d216a3e1 SHA-1: c12ad4b4d079c4bfec25792e9c0cf8d50de38aec SHA-256: 2e4c4a0de7d2dabb14a70cf502e363cf86dd97ccc726beeb4aecadca9f30884f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which host other PDFs, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common technique of distributing malicious payloads or leading users to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f471a375e39612204948560873faf65/towifiworaje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf9c3f1503e7be3214c188ee7427301f/tobesijififazumuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b4a3f7a543---68154041722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e4d379b9ef---57503144934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6030f21d5---jipeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.charroninc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8179e54f9c3a896bcfdbf312c25fcdd2/60273528648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/vupalavar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ba8565fa29bee2ceac7aa1e740180f4/85099545766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uticahighclassof78.com/clients/8/89/89c70e22fe5ad1405280b455f64975d7/File/sewopovovivevuzuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutencuddlybreedables.com/_images/file/16017799290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cullinanconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5sah15cva09nsi5djr0rc90cq1/xudubemijugab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20bf2477e061d90089426f6f31e3336d/58811400890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c1ceba453---15052355963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbe1eebbd9989746d85fa43827776fb/57054894651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/mipulokulisasoratilejasol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba6bfff1f18---72624639456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eccf29feb---vazekomisosudopevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=game+of+thrones+season+8+subtitles+english+downloadPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e6f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6F6 5780 bytes
SHA-256: 5494785dbf3e07dc99f25a9351a2fe4dac0da58f433339eb961f973840760c63
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA85 11032 bytes
SHA-256: eb448877b48ed601c1fa6993557a3f8f7f718ca05114b9618a675d5e495ffe93

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