Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e75fa4b04fe9c2f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 02:53:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3f561b900bcde8b2dea4d2d6919116da SHA-1: d20d1bb5de4ea8356b2988ba86b1bcf742992546 SHA-256: 2e75fa4b04fe9c2f83b3da5b9a2a5b875b6f6f21020bfe682f2cb70c14dec862
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on various domains, often within plugin upload directories, points towards a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae8f4f4cafab6aa248f8859631535671/32326633882.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bumsnab.ru/uploads/files/pemuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3337c4567e---71873274163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e6de0d8d1d---mekukoxosozekomexufajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc7faf8d110---23594253883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al33a2zdp0eo1x.com/DATA/file/20210627041241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.properties-thassos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/666ohejn0to1ce60t00f4o0mka/23668233223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a3853cbee---30039067174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manisafar.com/basefile/marcosafarir/files/8467840738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/61929678676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/viranaxefuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad897b7bb39593dc61099ce2c737cce2/81456825773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diodelumi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/milon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/77402258836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazis-expertiza.ru/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/13548261788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/67210647295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afb6b5bf08d---maduzilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d3d3c53183---luladukomodejotevimugonag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protechlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dd7f50148569a89745963c9bcb84820/soxalet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/limifewarixugadalub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/lasivituxalivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/lujugisofip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/77052480715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapokcmassage.com/uploads/files/202108151155219926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=dreyer%27s+english+benjamin+dreyer+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_off0000ec2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC2F 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 38cb72a96061d324b4e61c98de9c1e945bda162a728ead4ed6247a0fba123328
font_01_sfnt_off0001058d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1058D 18952 bytes
SHA-256: 2c78660ab6eff08005673af8582412a31e221fb523e740c419866b65d717fa24
font_02_sfnt_off000136e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1