Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e852adc7b250eec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 00:19:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 57b93e92ecace9455f5be88baae66bb4 SHA-1: c62f54131410139ff1b0247944e23641c45a6d92 SHA-256: 2e852adc7b250eecc492dc26fac2820d4bbf82664e0b037df17ffabd6ffea874
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate maliciousness, with the primary technique likely being Spearphishing Attachment to deliver this malicious document. The embedded URLs suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb8b77a2ec---golagewubuxopipewofib.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/12024720625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/38754280020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clasesholandes.com/userfiles/file/biwefafadoxejugujejuxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa489053db---gamijebafibezubejarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shortguycentral.com/ck_uploads/files/73090577375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094570561140---98032796598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/obfe6fl1pmeg40e1uvjqs3f685/lefaxovawosopitusanomaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app8itebarandgrill.com/admin/images/file/39654902706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d31ea5e4c6e46af85e9e93b64f9803e/77952548073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casier-a-bouteilles.com/file/bagepegugolaxelowojod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwva.com/uploads/files/72221260202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609aa2b498d36---82761368320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c6fdc8484b8500110ab921bb780a4430/baligamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/liviwotit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/wezifezawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jarauwerdaenzn.nl/userfiles/file/povafulupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6be223c0adfc36a6c1e49c619049763f/vetonifusuzitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micast.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ffu1sdihojrohoccbncqtl9b2/8852497234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb3536b0788c3d0c52dd971ac448193b/defefifurale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bordadoindustrial.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeniluxezeruxoxunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rittenhousesmiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57651e6c931b682b4c184ade7c296531/17240559895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/87194795764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br2kp0cph48f49609jqj28q0h6/74491450437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=thai+lao+grocery+storePDF 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_off0000fce5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCE5 10480 bytes
SHA-256: c5779921d2d20dcda6e4da891b3322a21e3fc28793e7774866adf40556ef632f
font_01_sfnt_off000114ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012cfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CFE 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 0b4df989c9894266c219dc963aaecee0f5ee83f618ab6553090c947190205d9a