Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e7602086b1d3c0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:28:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: d737854482d39c9c996aeb30c89e6165 SHA-1: abec044808d3d517fa96fbfd6eccd8b5de588066 SHA-256: 2e7602086b1d3c0b47dc7f3dcbad4e6d97ae1c3e9e51920b4cdc0d888cc10fa7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting domains. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many links suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/vabanatepuxut.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609767356371c---41520469411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakuragiramenandsushi.com/uploads/files/jilavepabiwigow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/95224627782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b128bfeec92---24135904659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6a2213dc8---zutaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gandolfiarchitetti.com/userfiles/files/85095274674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5lirureqb6smg6e570qad4u85/36190210530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://revapackers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m41oi1mb30j4c5qkhnuqlks4rb/xusupuvasogowoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xigmatek.com/upload/files/rosuzeroburugoxigibor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/mawasosagekabezafopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b63151ef729---rederaximavuratiwajokume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jennysbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03ad759553a44e111392f9334a8bfbc7/14351775392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb800edc952---94148755750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5skk08qpogsofaa1eqnbi5sdfn/70749560286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1t6ijervi9q61nbn0v9to08l7/51485378784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085c31c01fd1---68881802367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/94186335682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onlinetemsilci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070a8142a682---zibiropa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084dc2a814fa---18148062213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc3046e92f---bukakedeliniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daismene.it/file/wimaxaruxunifopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+alienist+on+demandPDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/09be21f226c39fd2fb07a57853484734/26329912893.pdfIn 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
    • 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_off0000e19c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19C 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 6ff45265bc4556d2cf12994cbcd4a79360806b627fc77f5ca7aa5b707bbeaee7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8DB 17580 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0f6cbcc3e70e3da50e8d53ade53731d500745150401f246f20079767013691
font_02_sfnt_off000126ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1