Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e57133b88cdd11c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 21:29:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 70ab5ece50309e194db59cf40ec76717 SHA-1: a1313fb755a5877eddf2000e217fd9123426c2ce SHA-256: 2e57133b88cdd11c394168bedb7236c7b844554b75b795634d2f6ba6fee030ae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious redirection scheme.

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://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1bd04cf1dd---58089650974.pdf
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f233ab6508---17620245549.pdf
    • http://studioaba.net/userfiles/files/57144648207.pdf
    • https://avela.md/userfiles/file/migojalu.pdf
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738e4286126---nesapinidubefave.pdf
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0879e9974f---wazoxixuvujifelasobod.pdf
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00346f1e29b179027a0da917f26aca48/tidokekegifetevatot.pdf
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f06026749b72e95c38f1aa3c582b2006/98283768372.pdf
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kjagldhfa9btci8kgobinf71m1/satizowut.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b920f5a5c98---11159694680.pdf
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/69250825915.pdf
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/62335582193.pdf
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7b57b884a2---mevujisapikaxidajiza.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5766422bd3---govabefokomox.pdf
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2d5ed88fda---80468188719.pdf
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/96773055293.pdf
    • https://bczenekar.hu/files/file/veruzupenupusokab.pdf
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/747ec7a497c11c7ad6abe3da9e040d32/44767442758.pdf
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/86097279839.pdf
    • http://skkouty.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mebebavufupuzik.pdf
    • http://bet-balance.com/userfiles/file/91854708700.pdf
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a814632c0b1ad48be2c13e3de69e5f1/79225617645.pdf
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q1gvinu7bfficegagq5jnq3mpd/13479015178.pdf
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a332a98c302---wamizezewedesiwu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=all+ussd+codes+for+android
    • 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_off0000e4a4.bin
869ce19551be93c624f8216d70bee532f3488fb80e4dc2a1ffbe8aeb7eb235fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4A4 17024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001110d.bin
197fda69bf3ed60f3c2e4c7939a7d7fc9d117e3e3590fe6c17c1fd28ffdd2cf6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1110D 10452 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128e1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128E1 16792 bytes