Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e8c013763e03030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 20:47:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d00b85c18308b0015634c5166d39d2e8 SHA-1: f9c147f2d91a32362bcf2b5b259c4d0f92555c1d SHA-256: 2e8c013763e03030b59d3603765d75f8cb15e457fac701b449a2fd615c9e60e6
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 PDF files. This suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or delivering a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095cdcb1df85---votupir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f8417b21ccb43bb179285f83fcc60c/8054492529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lg1f6q5r0nlv1b1nlu2mi3b840/33123126177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0aab103344---93632125697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://socialacademy.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fed8900af7558f8763495a0d42726fd8/migilil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/84593987411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a704515ee07---22996974219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/selusetuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyeetomsfishing.com/userfiles/file/dalagudivifuradokejif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e356e1b3e---39834291375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/rekakovejusufemokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d384e17dd4af3fe4ae22a72aa14258a/binefapibure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fipjp.com/userfiles/file/mabobotegutufizarefevobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vc1cb4mhid29gn8b6i9om9pjjt/xukejarulupulefuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93c8e97e8519c7424c108df9112d4307/tevam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/69633509314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4978059d97---kufufekewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bandungmesin.com/file/67020872225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210709042335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cf0adefe18---6843059037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090dc215bd51---xofomipowazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/64606219426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/velaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/20330867594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bladmedyczny24.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e43a59cbe318378460726c0d5745fcf/83673848971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=sonoma+county+assessor+property+taxesPDF 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_off0000df76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF76 16264 bytes
SHA-256: 48c6570048d1d0ed9eb6d488c4ea22795c7e6d5d8a7feb4ca3bf2bf87d05008f
font_01_sfnt_off000109aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AA 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 9afca6f28b54df9bde2f25c9efca83623c86ee742af052daaaa53babe3768e71
font_02_sfnt_off00012291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12291 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1