Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e66ee8a1a64c158…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.3 KB Created: 2021-06-16 00:18:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 60f4960d3f950db0e64998e15472e4da SHA-1: 561c78a95c40ddc9aba77427ef44f2692d9fcf75 SHA-256: 2e66ee8a1a64c158c07e7dbaee6e4f30d332b0fd6ce467a34c314d93a1696938
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=full+movie+sub+indo+fast+and+furious+9 PDF link annotation
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/db0ecb78893f12e7a7db741b949012de/97792925339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10161595249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac8aa635051---bepiwogeravoluwalobures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a997131ba6---90322808156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eternalbliss.net/file/pasuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b3c447850fccfd6ece6036ffcef72d/12943060207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7cb5ae55c2d49b62669be0688f62aa80/15542436010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/875cfdda92de790910e302b362d6b536/sarumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba8e155ee45c218ca6e11dbad946dbf3/zeterepuzig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/zabisifaponutukinafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auto-spec.ca/fck/file/desanugugafexawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlvanstory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d11e50c8756f555c706652589f1801ee/xemuvoxafabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fb20c1b04---77741695163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c4bc4c4d7b---wagexiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e3d06444f---21171444532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bce7e0e3e7e---66854660212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffrotcc126u6pdaaik3ueigv34/fezubipeninibeverakujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160751f335a132---gipivawelovole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098336a40483---vorop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f4b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B1 6440 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce5a7286efefc5aae27ce1c31b3347e159d00bd30cf97f509a0b7f7d49caffb
font_01_sfnt_off000104a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A6 5364 bytes
SHA-256: f55be188fab13e8f24f9ce66a8efbac40d4abf25c4b556c4aa3b3f949daa745e
font_02_sfnt_off000116c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116C4 5992 bytes
SHA-256: f1369fa60f436cfa99d9711ff8f2f6ec4445911bd5030b83ef09986447976c9b
font_03_sfnt_off00012cab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CAB 15608 bytes
SHA-256: 64a8fd9b0c988a60b1d8c67cb887158700b0d4835d44b5ba5ec0e28593b1e8e3
font_04_sfnt_off0001586a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1586A 16436 bytes
SHA-256: cc764f268388a80bee1681cf7736a0302d8af1e16c58221379bd26640438644e