Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e8b679ad0ffb25e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-06-25 20:28:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ee66d251ccd65a8ad4e11a37107af614 SHA-1: c71a630f33fe113c3e7a0e2100921c21f61a5f4a SHA-256: 2e8b679ad0ffb25ee9de0c94817e05a81842c845b644ff91e593023c61e339af
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://elitaliaweb.it/upload/file/kajagawugolufevoniraxutob.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d76dbf44f---87820842719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog//file/44306931176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/nubotejemivakube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webhenevents.com/clients/868374/File/6914028701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d404c63752---56238565272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc4282c76ad---89719181615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpieczna-strefa.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e069fdb290c73fa18f0f5627920ce820/96681992573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.suffaheducation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd81eabb0e0---pogotasazinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b231c4c6005c29ad3ed7c0732e2b1f69/78488466802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/piwowuxaxedibowinutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nailseasupportgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f300b00bc30ec6e96eb681bf13c7882b/wovubulakoxibawazekexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centronegozi.com/public/diven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival.bg/fckeditorfiles/file/13380193051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a76301851b7---23971238441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salubrismd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a872bb57a395e9f487d4aec582ea36fe/8985678473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/87798411508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccf8d4569c---jamegobezutokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/35787607408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cacff78ee1aba3510d9d0a91b2bd4023/50702646797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608835a310d7f---keradema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096913e77126---topufuronopenujezofewosav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078735498af7---23539800943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d39744df417---xonifabitafilijano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cd5403249c---14384506687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6e3aea06a---47798825032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=neet+2012+question+paper+with+solutions+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_off0000f589.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF589 16664 bytes
SHA-256: d609ec2675d6c7147559414a6201cbeb1a36337344a63a0502febe6bf3e85a35
font_01_sfnt_off000120ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013903.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13903 11200 bytes
SHA-256: fb0e030eb118f9c4622aed4b15b65b0be439126c68c6d8f2388ddff2265c2945

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