Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e6b372c9bb99336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.1 KB Created: 2021-08-06 07:47:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 4135aecbef04ceb864a3f24847c488ab SHA-1: 521370d433fed4f8e0207d302c644113296d2c42 SHA-256: 2e6b372c9bb993360c0d6b140d25a243ee7e52fa1df24f1e7eb4e956cd6574d7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, which in turn host other PDFs. This suggests the primary purpose is to lure users to malicious content, likely for phishing or further malware delivery. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://tauthuy.vn/upload/files/58806530271.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/wivosuzejilitudani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqck473jabrbsv477jlgb1esar/balulasisidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc5e7ab8fa7fb473f6b60cc5e5a1e2e8/bufiratuludajikuwimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607820a595523---64212345175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fa9dd5e5474---97243083299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jviq8dldfs70nn4qg9o8lap3q1/74590336587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4tskk08hai7t10a11q6bdtpf7s/gejufujivebafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/lafiduzapujafegijevoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://corianderedmonton.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32770012525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be4635d0c0b---42515827097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aksusu.com/upload/files/22580333156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photographerin.agency/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jvpnt5mf5d8jjvb8m1kjoa5003/tipuwinup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/vigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xecuoihuyhoang.com/uploads/userfiles/file/82799903983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b58edd5b63---25386001707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartmedicaleg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610406dbdeb67---pawisivigovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jemr6v18imrbsvm2l9bh4q8enf/xanatuxonaxumebozadela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b70c4fbb5e1---58745391451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o1u4p2a1tuooc6ng4q26eobsqmdipf31/35271876401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=como+ser+uma+pessoa+fria+e+calculista+pdfPDF 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_off000118fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118FD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013114.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13114 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 7113e2f47d77c8e88e80ad5ef6dfc65e438640ac92506045dc0083c68b5a6b81
font_02_sfnt_off00014a07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A07 19504 bytes
SHA-256: 4090756a66194057fc06032e902e306ff569acf9d6a139972df3b1a1fae83a99