Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e66079ed1be1e2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.2 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:33:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 524879a1dcef3543f72e7e141d17caaa SHA-1: f1a88642204327b56d4d7f4b28de4fe2a5aa29d2 SHA-256: 2e66079ed1be1e2f36bab2784d6134a1ad8cc3ec07617b73ea7fab9f29e837e8
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 and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate it is likely designed to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093052fe95a6---fitulabidaziwegefulaxif.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clubsportedinburgh.org/userfiles/files/59475646886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.doctor-carpet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ni6i5m88n4iaoa2v9ccst55e4/lifanarenin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9e5bd861fb---xesitulakalorajafijadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jackyrouxmethode.com/userfiles/file/71993219609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7e556fce1eadfd406357a8a5a94d12b/54580613072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lbhodgereunion.com/clients/3/38/38e1f81cb1ac74d12d86c8ba87866b9f/File/91161654894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160966124442ca---60602195026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160819e66dea3e---43944150532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731076b8a12---rigodoboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3230ede15e---migemetobixoxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97021764072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6tcec3put60dk2mu1kfqpnho10/dazedanabife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf61789449---9769981422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/67577169247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7992170ffb---darirabapivoros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1537ac3279fd932d4681b5cb82d9a66d/8867982728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b338e9e4aa20eb3250930d626f9fdcc0/burisawaxifukifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/97948302861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62ec151ca2774b2a22003250c267214a/69517146398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.auditsi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb3f0abf7f0---sukusenikebeberiteni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210615193022_1571216456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwerotefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/bobizavawizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hobbes+and+the+statePDF 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_off00015a24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15A24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00017236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17236 17804 bytes
SHA-256: 593dee4550d2a683745bedb94add327280870814777de2c617c867332be301b0
font_02_sfnt_off00019f4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F4D 10240 bytes
SHA-256: fc1b64894793780cef690ed4873b3e453887eacd551746d74ea38533dd24b980